10 Letter 3 Letter Wordle Words Ending With A

ABA (5) [noun] A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair. | [noun] A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, worn by Arabs. | [noun] An outer garment made of the above, very simple in form, worn by the Arabs of the desert. The illustration shows such an aba, made of two breadths of stuff sewed together to make an oblong about four by nine feet. | [noun] An altazimuth used for astronomy on either land or water. | [noun] The electric fish Gymnarchus niloticus (frankfish, freshwater rat-tail, African knifefish), found in swamps, lakes and rivers in Africa. AGA (4) [noun] An honorific for high officials used in Turkey and certain Muslim countries. AHA (6) [interjection] An exclamation of understanding, realization, invention, or recognition. | [interjection] An exclamation of surprise, exaltation, or contempt. ALA (3) [noun] A wing or winglike structure. | [noun] A winglike anatomical process or part, especially of bone. | [noun] The flattened border of some stems, fruits, and seeds, or one of the two side petals of certain flowers in the pea family. | [preposition] In the style or manner of. AMA (5) ANA (3) [noun] A collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table | [adverb] (in prescriptions) Of each; an equal quantity. | [noun] Anorexia (used especially by the pro-ana movement). | [adverb] In a direction analogous to up, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension. | [noun] A unit of currency in former British India equal to 12 pies or 1/16 rupee. AVA (6) AWA (6) BAA (5) [noun] The characteristic cry or bleating of a sheep. | [verb] To make the characteristic cry of a sheep. | [interjection] The characteristic cry of a sheep. | [noun] The letter ب in the Arabic script. BOA (5) [noun] Any of a group of large American snakes, of the genus Boa, subfamily Boinae, or family Boidae, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico, and the chevalier boa of Peru. | [noun] (plural "boas") A type of scarf typically made from feathers. BRA (5) [noun] An item of underwear worn to support the breasts; now commonly shortened to bra. | [noun] One of the two vectors in the standard notation for describing quantum states in quantum mechanics, the other being the ket. | [noun] Friend ERA (3) [noun] A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year. | [noun] A unit of time, smaller than eons and greater than periods. ETA (3) [noun] The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek. | [noun] A kind of electrically neutral meson having zero spin and isospin. | [noun] A social outcast in Japan who is subjected to menial work, making up a class or caste of such people. GOA (4) KEA (7) [noun] Nestor notabilis, a parrot of New Zealand. KOA (7) [noun] Acacia koa, a species of large tree in the family Fabaceae which is endemic to and common on the islands of Hawaii; or the wood of this tree. LEA (3) [noun] An open field, meadow. | [noun] Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards. | [noun] A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle. MOA (5) [noun] Any of several species of large, extinct, flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae that were native to New Zealand; until its extinction, one species was the largest bird in the world. OCA (5) [noun] Any of certain species of Oxalis (Oxalis crenata, and Oxalis tuberosa) which bear edible tubers. OKA (7) [noun] A former Turkish, Egyptian, Hungarian, and Romanian unit of weight, usually of a little more than a kilogram. | [noun] A unit of volume in Egypt (and formerly Turkey) corresponding to about 1.2 litres. ORA (3) [noun] A mouth; an opening. | [noun] In particular, either end of the cervix, internal (to the uterus) or external (to the vagina). | [noun] A unit of money among the Anglo-Saxons. OVA (6) [noun] The female gamete in animals; the egg cell. PEA (5) [noun] A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family. | [noun] The edible seed of some of these plants. | [noun] A ball travelling at high velocity. | [noun] A peafowl | [noun] Wampum. PIA (5) [noun] The pia mater, the innermost of the meninges that protect the brain and spinal cord | [noun] A perennial Polynesian herb whose fleshy tubers yield arrowroot. PYA (8) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Burmese kyat. | [noun] A subdivision of currency in colonial Burma, equal to 1/4 of an anna or 1/64 of a rupee QUA (12) [preposition] As; in the capacity of RIA (3) [noun] A submergent coastal landform, often known as a drowned river valley RYA (6) SEA (3) [noun] A large body of salt water. | [noun] A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish. | [noun] The swell of the sea; a single wave; billow. SHA (6) SKA (7) [noun] A style of Jamaican dance music combining elements of Caribbean calypso and mento with American jazz and rhythm and blues. SPA (5) [noun] A health resort near a mineral spring or hot spring. | [noun] A trendy or fashionable resort. | [noun] A health club. | [noun] A clumsy person (see spastic) TEA (3) [noun] A drug smoked or ingested for euphoric effect, cannabis. | [noun] The hemp plant itself, Cannabis sativa. | [noun] Food consumed before going to bed. | [noun] A moment, a historical unit of time from China, about the amount of time needed to quickly drink a traditional cup of tea. It is now found in Chinese-language historical fiction. TWA (6) UTA (3) VIA (6) [noun] A main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.) | [noun] A small hole in a printed circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layers. | [preposition] By way of; passing through. WHA (9) YEA (6) [noun] An affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken | [adverb] Yes. | [adverb] Thus, so (now often accompanied by a hand gesture). | [interjection] Expressing joy, celebration, glee, etc. ZOA (12)

ABBA (8) [noun] Father; religious superior; in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch; a title given to Jewish scholars in the Talmudic period. | [noun] A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair. | [noun] A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, worn by Arabs. ACTA (6) [noun] Plural of actum; records of the proceedings or transactions of a society or organization. AGHA (8) [noun] A commander or official of high rank in the Ottoman Empire or other Muslim countries. AGMA (7) [noun] The nasalized velar consonant found in such words as song or wink. | [noun] The symbol ŋ, used to represent that nasal velar consonant in IPA; eng. ALBA (6) [noun] A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn. | [noun] A white-flowered shrub rose of the hybrid Rosa × alba. | [noun] A flower of the hybrid Rosa × alba. | [noun] A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs. ALFA (7) ALGA (5) [noun] Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic. ALMA (6) AMIA (6) ANGA (5) ANNA (4) [noun] A unit of currency in former British India equal to 12 pies or 1/16 rupee. ANOA (4) [noun] Any of either Bubalus quarlesi or Bubalus depressicornis, being species of small Indonesian water buffalo similar in appearance to a deer. ANSA (4) [noun] A loop-shaped anatomical structure, such as a handle-like projection or curved part of an organ. ANTA (4) [noun] A pilaster or pier formed at the corner of a building or at the end of a wall. AQUA (13) [noun] The compound water. | [noun] A shade of colour, usually a mix of blue and green similar to the colour turquoise. | [adjective] Of a greenish-blue colour. AREA (4) [noun] A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units. | [noun] A particular geographic region. | [noun] Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent. ARIA (4) [noun] A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata. ASEA (4) [adjective] On the sea; at sea. ATMA (6) [noun] The eternal self or soul in Hindu and yogic philosophy, believed to be the innermost essence of a person. AURA (4) [noun] Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something. | [noun] An invisible force surrounding a living creature. | [noun] Perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache. BABA (8) [noun] A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup. | [noun] (esp. among people of East European ancestry) A grandmother. | [noun] An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an eastern European culture. BEMA (8) [noun] A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. | [noun] Raised area of worship in a synagogue upon which rests the Holy Ark containing Scrolls of Torah. BETA (6) [noun] The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase. | [noun] Used in marking scheme: α, β, γ or α+, α, α-, β etc. | [noun] Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices. BIMA (8) [noun] The raised platform in the front of a synagogue where the Torah is read on a podium. BOLA (6) [noun] A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord. BORA (6) [noun] A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales. | [noun] A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world. BOTA (6) [noun] A leather bottle or bag, typically made from a goatskin, used for storing and carrying liquids such as wine or water. BURA (6) [noun] A violent cold northeasterly wind that blows across Central Asia and southeastern Europe. CACA (8) [noun] Excrement CASA (6) [noun] House CECA (8) [noun] A blind pouch connected to the large intestine between the ileum and the colon. CHIA (9) [noun] A Mexican sage grown for its edible seeds, Salvia hispanica. | [noun] Salvia columbariae, a sage with similar seeds, native to the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico. COCA (8) [noun] Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America. | [noun] The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine. | [noun] A pastry typically made and consumed in the Spanish Mediterranean coast. CODA (7) [noun] A person born hearing to deaf parents. | [noun] A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation. | [noun] The optional final part of a syllable, placed after its nucleus, and usually composed of one or more consonants. COLA (6) [noun] The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts. | [noun] A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water. | [noun] The punctuation mark ":". | [noun] A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant. COMA (8) [noun] A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma. | [noun] A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet. | [noun] A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points. COXA (13) [noun] The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example). CYMA (11) [noun] A moulding of the cornice, wavelike in form, whose outline consists of a concave and a convex line; an ogee. | [noun] A cyme. DADA (6) [noun] Father, dad. | [noun] (Southeast Asia) Illegal drugs. | [noun] A cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland during and as a reaction to World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920, which primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, nihilism, randomness, and rejection of the prevailing standards in art. DATA (5) [noun] (plural: data) A measurement of something on a scale understood by both the recorder (a person or device) and the reader (another person or device). The scale is arbitrarily defined, such as from 1 to 10 by ones, 1 to 100 by 0.1, or simply true or false, on or off, yes, no, or maybe, etc. | [noun] (plural: data) A fact known from direct observation. | [noun] (plural: data) A premise from which conclusions are drawn. DEVA (8) [noun] A god in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism. DITA (5) DIVA (8) [noun] Any female celebrity, usually a well known singer or actress. | [noun] A person who may be considered or who considers herself (or by extension himself) much more important than others, has high expectations of others and who is extremely demanding and fussy when it comes to personal privileges. DONA (5) DOPA (7) [noun] The amino acid dihydroxyphenylalanine that is generated in the liver from tyrosine and then converted into dopamine in the brain. DUMA (7) [noun] A Russian legislative assembly such as the historical duma of the Russian Empire or the modern lower house of the Federal Assembly (the Russian national parliament). | [noun] A drink mixing wine and vodka. DURA (5) [noun] The dura mater, the outer covering of the brain and spinal cord. | [noun] A kind of millet, a variety of sorghum; Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor). EPHA (9) ETNA (4) EYRA (7) [noun] A slender, reddish-yellow wild cat (Puma yagouaroundi eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas. FAVA (10) [noun] A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself. FETA (7) [noun] A variety of curd cheese made from sheep’s or goat’s milk and originating from Greece. FILA (7) FLEA (7) [noun] A small, wingless, parasitic insect of the order Siphonaptera, renowned for its bloodsucking habits and jumping abilities. | [noun] A thing of no significance. | [verb] To remove fleas from (an animal). | [verb] To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening). FORA (7) [noun] A place for discussion. | [noun] A gathering for the purpose of discussion. | [noun] A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience. GAGA (6) [adjective] Mentally senile. | [adjective] Crazy. | [adjective] Infatuated. | [noun] A variant of dodgeball played inside a fenced area, usually a hexagon or octagon. GALA (5) [noun] Pomp, show, or festivity. | [noun] A showy and festive party. | [adjective] Celebratory; festive. | [noun] A member of an androgynous class of priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna. GAMA (7) GETA (5) GIGA (6) GLIA (5) [noun] The network of glial cells that supports nervous system tissue. HAHA (10) [interjection] An onomatopoeic representation of laughter. | [noun] Type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached. HILA (7) [noun] The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support. | [noun] The nucleus of a starch grain. | [noun] A depression or fissure through which ducts, nerves, or blood vessels enter and leave a gland or organ; a porta. HORA (7) [noun] A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide. | [noun] A branch of traditional Indian astrology, dealing with the finer points of predictive methods. HOYA (10) [noun] Any plant of the genus Hoya HULA (7) [noun] A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there. | [verb] To dance the hula. HYLA (10) [noun] A tree frog of the genus Hyla. | [noun] Matter | [noun] The first matter of the cosmos, from which the four elements arose, according to the doctrines of Empedocles and Aristotle. IDEA (5) [noun] An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples. | [noun] The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal. | [noun] The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic. ILEA (4) [noun] The last, and usually the longest, division of the small intestine; the part between the jejunum and large intestine. ILIA (4) [noun] The upper and widest of the three bones that make up each side of the hipbone and pelvis. | [noun] The ileum, part of the small intestine. ILKA (8) INIA (4) IOTA (4) [noun] The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet. | [noun] A jot; a very small, insignificant quantity. ISBA (6) IXIA (11) [noun] Any of the genus Ixia of cormous plants native to South Africa. JAVA (14) [noun] A blend of coffee imported from the island of Java. | [noun] Coffee in general. | [noun] A dance popular in France in the early 20th century. JOTA (11) [noun] A traditional popular dance of the Iberian peninsula with regional variations. | [noun] The music to which this dance is set, normally of 3/4 or 6/8 time. JUBA (13) [noun] The mane of an animal. | [noun] A loose panicle whose axis falls to pieces, as in certain grasses. | [noun] An American dance of West African origin that involves stomping as well as slapping and patting the arms, legs, chest, and cheeks. JUGA (12) [noun] One of the ridges commonly found on the fruit of umbelliferous plants. | [noun] A pair of opposite leaflets of a pinnate plant. JURA (11) KAKA (12) [noun] Any of four taxa of birds in the genus Nestor in the parrot family confined to New Zealand and adjacent islands. KANA (8) [noun] The hiragana and katakana syllabaries. These are made up of characters that represent individual syllables, which are are used to write Japanese words and particles. Kana are derived from kanji. | [noun] A hiragana or katakana character. KAPA (10) KATA (8) [noun] Any of a sequence of positions and movements used in many martial arts. | [noun] (in combination) A drop (in temperature). | [adverb] In a direction analogous to down, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension. | [noun] A kind of pastry in Armenia and some neighboring countries. KAVA (11) [noun] A plant from the South Pacific, Piper methysticum. | [noun] An intoxicating beverage made from the kava plant. KINA (8) [noun] The national currency of Papua New Guinea, divided into 100 toea. | [noun] Evechinus chloroticus, a sea urchin endemic to New Zealand. KIVA (11) [noun] A ceremonial underground chamber in a Pueblo village. KOLA (8) [noun] The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts. | [noun] A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water. | [noun] A tree, genus Cola, bearing large brown seeds ("nuts") that are the source of cola extract. LAMA (6) [noun] A master of Tibetan Buddhism. | [noun] A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat. LAVA (7) [noun] The molten rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides. | [noun] Magma. | [noun] A shade of red, named after the volcanic lava. LEVA (7) [noun] The currency of Bulgaria, divided into 100 stotinki LIMA (6) LIRA (4) [noun] The former currency of Israel, superseded by the sheqel. | [noun] The basic unit of currency in Turkey. | [noun] The currency of Lebanon (also pound), Syria (also pound), Jordan (also dinar) | [noun] A Ukrainian folk musical instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy. | [noun] Any of a set of fine ridges on the shells of some molluscs LOCA (6) LOTA (4) [noun] A spherical pot, specifically a water pot used for washing and ablution, typically made of brass. | [noun] A person who switches loyalties, especially from one political party to another. LUNA (4) MAMA (8) [noun] (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent. MANA (6) [noun] Power, prestige; specifically, a form of supernatural energy in Polynesian religion that inheres in things or people. | [noun] Magical power. | [noun] A monetary unit of ancient Greece and the Middle East, originally equivalent to the weight of a mina of silver. | [noun] Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus. MAYA (9) [noun] Magic; supernatural power as held by the gods. | [noun] The power by which the universe is made to appear; the illusion of the phenomenal world, as opposed to its true or spiritual reality. MESA (6) [noun] Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges. META (6) [adjective] Self-referential; structured analogously, but at a higher level. | [noun] Boundary marker. | [noun] Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus. | [noun] Metagame; the most effective tactics and strategies used in a competitive video game. | [noun] Metoidioplasty. MICA (8) [noun] Any of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. MINA (6) MOLA (6) [noun] A traditional textile art form of the Kuna people of Panama and Colombia, consisting of cloth panels to be worn on clothing, featuring complex designs made with multiple layers of cloth in a reverse appliqué technique. | [noun] A sunfish, Mola mola. MORA (6) MOXA (13) [noun] Dried leaves of an Asian species of mugwort, Artemisia argyi as used in moxibustion. | [noun] Any other plant used in moxibustion. MURA (6) MYNA (9) [noun] One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae. NADA (5) [pronoun] Nothing. NANA (4) [noun] A banana | [noun] A fool | [noun] (term of endearment) one's grandmother NEMA (6) NIPA (6) [noun] A palm tree of the species Nypa fruticans. | [noun] A liquor made from the sap of nipa palm. | [noun] The leaves of the nipa palm, when used as a material for thatching, basketry or other uses. | [noun] Distichlis palmeri, a saltgrass native to the Sonoran Desert of Mexico and the United States, Palmer's grass. NOMA (6) [noun] A gangrenous disease leading to tissue destruction of the face, especially the mouth and cheek. NONA (4) NOTA (4) [noun] The back; the dorsal aspect of the thorax in insects. NOVA (7) [noun] Any sudden brightening of a previously inconspicuous star. OBIA (6) ODEA (5) [noun] An ancient Greek or Roman building used for performances of music and poetry. | [noun] A theatre or concert hall. OHIA (7) OKRA (8) [noun] The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus. | [noun] The flowering mallow plant Abelmoschus esculentus itself, now commonly grown in the tropics and warmer parts of the temperate zones. OLEA (4) OLLA (4) ORCA (6) [noun] A sea mammal (Orcinus orca) related to dolphins and porpoises, commonly called the killer whale. ORRA (4) [adjective] Superfluous; odd, unmatched, left over. | [adjective] Of people: idle, unemployed, disreputable. OSSA (4) [noun] Bone. PACA (8) [noun] Any of the large rodents of the genus Cuniculus (but see also its synonyms), native to Central America and South America, which have dark brown or black fur, a white or yellowish underbelly and rows of white spots along the sides. PAPA (8) [noun] Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father. | [noun] A pet name for one's grandfather. | [noun] A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church. PARA (6) [noun] A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions. | [noun] A woman who has had a certain number of pregnancies, indicated by the number prepended to this word. | [noun] A passage in text that is about a different subject from the preceding text, marked by commencing on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented. | [noun] A paratrooper. | [adjective] Very drunk | [noun] Short for paraprofessional educator. PICA (8) [noun] A disorder characterized by craving and appetite for non-edible substances, such as ice, clay, chalk, dirt, or sand. | [noun] A size of type between small pica and English, standardized as 12-point. | [noun] (usually with qualifier) A font of this size. | [noun] Any of several small, furry mammals, similar to guinea pigs, but related to rabbits, of the family Ochotonidae, from the mountains of North America and Asia. | [noun] A magpie. PIKA (10) [noun] Any of several small, furry mammals, similar to guinea pigs, but related to rabbits, of the family Ochotonidae, from the mountains of North America and Asia. PIMA (8) [noun] A soft form of cotton having long fibres (Gossypium barbadense) PINA (6) [noun] Cloth woven from pineapple fiber | [noun] A cone of silver amalgam prepared for retorting. | [noun] The residual cone of spongy silver left after the retorting. PITA (6) [noun] A flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels. | [noun] A fiber obtained from the Agave americana and related species, used for making cordage and paper. | [noun] The plant which yields the fiber. PLEA (6) [noun] An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty. | [noun] An excuse; an apology. | [noun] That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification. PROA (6) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PUJA (13) [noun] A religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship. PULA (6) [noun] Rain, used as an expression of greeting or good luck. | [noun] The currency of Botswana, divided into 100 thebe. PUMA (8) [noun] The mountain lion or cougar, Puma concolor. | [noun] A woman in her 20s or 30s who seeks relationships with younger men; a younger cougar. PUNA (6) [noun] An alpine biological community in the central portion of the Andes in which short, coarse grass supports a Native American population. PUPA (8) [noun] An insect in the development stage between larva and adult. RAGA (5) [noun] Any of various melodic forms used in Indian classical music, or a piece of music composed in such a form. | [noun] Passion, love, lust. RAIA (4) RAJA (11) [noun] A Hindu prince or ruler in India. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Charaxes. RAYA (7) RHEA (7) [noun] A large flightless bird of the genus Rhea, native to South America. | [noun] Ramie (Boehmeria nivea), a fiber-yielding plant. ROTA (4) [noun] A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar. | [noun] A kind of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music. RUGA (5) SAGA (5) [noun] An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends. | [noun] Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story. SERA (4) [noun] The clear yellowish liquid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot. | [noun] Blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals, containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual, called antiserum. | [noun] A watery liquid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister. SETA (4) [noun] A bristle or hair | [noun] The stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort. SHEA (7) [noun] A tree (Vitellaria paradoxa) indigenous to Africa, occurring in Mali, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Togo, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Uganda. | [noun] The fruit of this tree, having a thin, tart, nutritious pulp that surrounds a relatively large, oil-rich seed. SIMA (6) [noun] The upturned edge of a roof which acts as a gutter; a cyma. | [noun] The lower layer of the earth's outer crust that underlies the sial and is rich in silica, iron, and magnesium. SKUA (8) [noun] Any of various predatory seabirds of the family Stercorariidae that often chase other seabirds to steal their catches. SODA (5) [noun] Sodium bicarbonate (usually baking soda). | [noun] Sodium carbonate (usually washing soda). | [noun] Sodium in chemical combination. SOFA (7) [noun] A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting. | [noun] (furniture) An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people. | [verb] To furnish with one or more sofas. SOJA (11) SOLA (4) [noun] A wild plant found in Bengal and Assam, Aeschynomene aspera, having a milky-white, spongy pith used for the manufacture of pith helmets and decorative artefacts. SOMA (6) [noun] The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail. | [noun] The corporeal body, as distinguished from the psyche or soul and the pneuma or spirit. | [noun] The bulbous part of a neuron, containing the cell nucleus. | [noun] (hinduism) A ritual drink in ancient Vedic and continuing Hindu culture, obtained by pressing the Soma plant. SORA (4) [noun] A rail (Porzana carolina) of North, Central, and northern South America. SOYA (7) [noun] A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water. | [noun] Soybeans, or the protein derived from them. STOA (4) [noun] In Ancient Greece, a walkway with a roof supported by colonnades, often with a wall on one side; specifically, the Great Hall in Athens. SUBA (6) SURA (4) [noun] Any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an. | [noun] The sap of the palmyra or of the coconut palm, palm wine. TAKA (8) [noun] The official currency of Bangladesh, equal to 100 paisas. Symbol: ৳ TALA (4) [noun] The currency of Samoa, divided into 100 sene. | [noun] A rhythmic pattern in Indian music. TAPA (6) [noun] A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry. | [noun] Any appetizer or snack served in the evening as part of tapas. | [noun] Seasoned slices of dried or cured meat in Filipino cuisine. TAXA (11) [noun] A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. TELA (4) TEPA (6) TOEA (4) [noun] A unit of currency, equivalent to one hundredth of a Papua New Guinean kina. TOGA (5) [noun] A loose outer garment worn by the citizens of Ancient Rome. | [noun] A loose wrap gown. | [noun] An academic gown. TOLA (4) TORA (4) TUBA (6) [noun] A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys. | [noun] A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba. | [noun] A large reed stop in organs. | [noun] A Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis. | [noun] A reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap. | [noun] A tube or tubular organ. TUFA (7) [noun] Calcareous lime deposited by precipitation from a body of water, such as a hot spring. | [noun] A variety of volcanic rock, tuff. TUNA (4) [noun] Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae. | [noun] The edible flesh of the tuna. | [noun] The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia. ULNA (4) [noun] The bone of the forearm that extends from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite to the thumb, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. Also, the corresponding bone in the forelimb of any vertebrate. ULVA (7) UREA (4) [noun] A water-soluble organic compound, CO(NH2)2, formed by the metabolism of proteins and excreted in the urine. | [noun] Any N-substituted derivative of urea, with the general formula (R1R2N)CO(NR3R4). URSA (4) UVEA (7) [noun] The middle of the three concentric layers that make up the eye; it is pigmented and vascular, and comprises the choroid, the ciliary body, and the iris. VARA (7) VASA (7) [noun] A parrot of a variety that is native to Madagascar. VELA (7) [noun] A thin membrane, resembling a veil, such as: | [noun] An accessory cloud resembling a veil extending over a large distance. Normally associated with cumulus and cumulonimbus. VENA (7) VERA (7) VIGA (8) [noun] A roughly-made rafter or roof timber, especially in a Latin American village VINA (7) [noun] A plucked stringed instrument with five or seven steel strings stretched on a long fretted finger-board over two gourds, used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music. VISA (7) [noun] A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited. | [verb] To endorse (a passport, etc.). VITA (7) [noun] A curriculum vitae. VIVA (10) [noun] A shout of applause. | [verb] To cheer, applaud | [interjection] Long live ... ! (used to express acclaim or support). | [noun] An oral examination, typically for an academic qualification. WEKA (11) [noun] The woodhen, a flightless bird of New Zealand. WHOA (10) [verb] To attempt to slow (an animal) by crying "whoa". | [interjection] Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down. | [interjection] An expression of surprise. YOGA (8) [noun] Any of several Hindu or Buddhist disciplines aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity; especially a system of exercises practiced to promote control of the body and mind. | [noun] The tree Elaeocarpus joga. YUCA (9) [noun] Cassava | [noun] Cassava root YUGA (8) [noun] In Hindu theology, an epoch or era within a cycle of four ages: the Satya Yuga (or Krita Yuga), the Dvapara Yuga, the Treta Yuga and finally the Kali Yuga, with lengths ranging from 432,000 to 1,728,000 years. ZETA (13) [noun] The sixth letter of the modern Greek alphabet (Ζ, ζ) preceded by epsilon (Ε, ε) and followed by eta, (Η, η); or the seventh letter in the ancient Greek alphabet, in which it is preceded by digamma (Ϝ, ϝ) | [noun] A mathematical function formally known as the Riemann zeta function. ZOEA (13)

ABACA (9) [noun] Musa textilis, a species of banana tree native to the Philippines grown for its textile, rope- and papermaking fibre. | [noun] The fiber of this plant, used in rope. ABAKA (11) ABOMA (9) ACETA (7) [noun] Plural of acetum; vinegar or a sour liquid. | [noun] Solutions of medicinal substances in vinegar. ADYTA (9) [noun] The innermost sanctuary or shrine in a temple, from where oracles were given. | [noun] (by extension) A private chamber; a sanctum. AECIA (7) [noun] The plural of aecium, a fruiting structure in rust fungi that produces aecospores. AGAMA (8) [noun] Any of the various small, long-tailed lizards of the subfamily Agaminae of family Agamidae, especially in genera Acanthocercus, Agama, Dendragama, Laudakia, Phrynocephalus, Trapelus and Xenagama. AGORA (6) [noun] A place for gathering. | [noun] A marketplace, especially in Classical Greece. | [noun] Since 1960, a monetary unit and coin of Israel, the 100th part of a shekel / sheqel. AGRIA (6) AJIVA (15) [noun] In Jainism, the term for non-living matter or substances that lack a soul, as opposed to jiva (living beings). AJUGA (13) [noun] Any plant in the genus Ajuga, especially the ornamental ground cover Ajuga reptans. AKELA (9) [noun] The leader of a pack of Cub Scouts. ALIYA (8) ALOHA (8) [noun] Good wishes, love. | [noun] An utterance of aloha (see Interjection, below). | [interjection] Expressing good wishes when greeting or parting from someone; hello; goodbye. ALPHA (10) [noun] The name of the first letter of the Greek alphabet (Α, α), followed by beta. In the Latin alphabet it is the predecessor to A. | [noun] Latin alpha | [noun] The name of the symbols Α and α used in science and mathematics, often interchangeable with the symbols when used as a prefix. ALULA (5) [noun] A small projection of three or four feathers on the first digit of the wing on some birds. | [noun] A flower, a species of Hawaiian lobelioid AMEBA (9) [noun] A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia. | [noun] The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers. | [noun] An asexual. AMIGA (8) [noun] A female friend or female companion, particularly used in Spanish-speaking contexts but adopted into English informal usage. AMNIA (7) [noun] The innermost membrane of the fetal membranes of reptiles, birds, and mammals; the sac in which the embryo is suspended. ANIMA (7) [noun] The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus. | [noun] (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) of a person that is in touch with the unconscious as opposed to the persona. | [noun] (Jungian psychology) The unconscious feminine aspect of a person. ANTRA (5) [noun] A bodily cavity, especially one having bony walls, especially one in the sinuses. AORTA (5) [noun] The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system. | [noun] The liveliest part of something. APNEA (7) [noun] The cessation of breathing. ARECA (7) [noun] Any member of the genus Areca of about fifty species of single-stemmed palms in the family Arecaceae, found in humid tropical forests. ARENA (5) [noun] An enclosed area, often outdoor, for the presentation of sporting events (sports arena) or other spectacular events; earthen area, often oval, specifically for rodeos (North America) or circular area for bullfights (especially Hispanic America). | [noun] The building housing such an area; specifically, a very large, often round building, often topped with a dome, designated for indoor sporting or other major events, such as concerts. | [noun] The sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre where contests were held in Ancient Rome. AROMA (7) [noun] A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one. ASANA (5) [noun] A body position, typically associated with the practice of yoga. | [noun] Any of certain trees of genus Pterocarpus | [noun] The wood of such trees, sometimes sold as Philippine mahogany. ASYLA (8) [noun] Plural of asylum, referring to places of refuge or institutions for the care of people with mental illness or other conditions. ATRIA (5) [noun] A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings. | [noun] A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels. | [noun] A cavity, entrance, or passage. BABKA (13) [noun] A sweet braided or swirled yeast bread of Jewish origin, typically filled with cinnamon, chocolate, or fruit. BACCA (11) [noun] A berry or berry-like fruit. | [noun] In anatomy, a small rounded structure or protuberance. BAIZA (16) [noun] A monetary unit of Oman, equal to one thousandth of a rial. BALSA (7) [noun] A large tree, Ochroma pyramidale, native to tropical America, with wood that is very light in weight. | [noun] The wood of this tree. | [noun] A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America. BELGA (8) [noun] A monetary unit of Belgium, equal to one hundredth of a franc. BETTA (7) [noun] A small colorful freshwater fish native to Southeast Asia, popular in aquariums. | [noun] A variant spelling of "beta," the second letter of the Greek alphabet. BIOTA (7) [noun] The living organisms of a region. | [noun] Platycladus orientalis (syn. Biota orientalis, Oriental arborvitae). BOHEA (10) [noun] A black tea from China. BOYLA (10) BRAVA (10) [interjection] An exclamation of approval or praise, typically used to express appreciation for a performance. | [noun] A shout of "brava" as an expression of acclaim. BRAZA (16) [noun] A unit of length used in Spanish-speaking countries, approximately equivalent to a fathom or about 1.67 meters. BULLA (7) [noun] A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion. | [noun] A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents. | [noun] In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss. | [noun] A rich Jamaican cake made with molasses and spiced with ginger and nutmeg. BUNYA (10) [noun] The bunya pine, Araucaria bidwillii, native to Queensland. | [noun] A banyan, a member of a specific Hindu caste. BURSA (7) [noun] Any of the many small fluid-filled sacs located at the point where a muscle or tendon slides across bone. These sacs serve to reduce friction between the two moving surfaces. BWANA (10) [noun] Big boss, important person. CAECA (9) [noun] A blind pouch connected to the large intestine between the ileum and the colon. CALLA (7) [noun] A marsh plant native to cooler areas throughout the northern hemisphere, Calla palustris, having pale green flowers in a white spathe. | [noun] The calla lily, Zantedeschia aethiopica. CANNA (7) [noun] Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers. | [noun] A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet. CEIBA (9) [noun] Any tree of the species in genus Ceiba | [noun] The silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba). CELLA (7) [noun] The central, enclosed part of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticos. CERIA (7) [noun] A white powdery oxide of cerium, used in polishing compounds and as a catalyst. CESTA (7) [noun] A basket used in jai alai for catching and throwing a ball. | [noun] A cestus or girdle worn in ancient times. CHELA (10) [noun] A pincer-like claw of a crustacean or arachnid. | [noun] A pupil or disciple, especially in Hinduism. CHINA (10) [noun] The plant Smilax china, a liana of much of eastern Asia. | [noun] A plant or flower of the repeat-blooming Chinese rose species Rosa chinensis. | [noun] A plant or flower of one of the class of hybrids developed from Rosa chinensis. CHUFA (13) [noun] Cyperus esculentus, a species of sedge native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere having small edible tubers (tiger nuts). CILIA (7) [noun] Hairs or similar protrusions along the margin of a plant organ. | [noun] A hairlike organelle projecting from a eukaryotic cell (such as a unicellular organism or one cell of a multicelled organism). These structures serve either for locomotion by moving or as sensors. | [noun] One of the fine hairs along an insect's wing. CIRCA (9) [preposition] Approximately, about, around (typically in relation to time) COALA (7) COBIA (9) [noun] Rachycentron canadum, a perciform marine fish. COBRA (9) [noun] Any of various venomous snakes of the family Elapidae. COCOA (9) [noun] The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made. | [noun] An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking. | [noun] A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar. | [noun] Coconut palm. COLZA (16) [noun] Oilseed rape (Brassica napus), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil, valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes. COMMA (11) [noun] The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list. | [noun] A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia. CONGA (8) [noun] A tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban hand drum of African origin | [noun] A march of Cuban origin in four-four time in which people form a chain, each holding the hips of the person in front of them; in each bar, dancers take three shuffle steps and then kick alternate legs outwards at the beat; the chain weaves around the place and allows new participants to join the back of the chain | [verb] To dance the conga. COPRA (9) [noun] The dried kernel of the coconut, from which coconut oil is extruded. CORIA (7) COSTA (7) [noun] A rib. | [noun] A riblike part of a plant or animal, such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein or the margin of an insect wing. COTTA (7) [noun] A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none. | [noun] A kind of coarse woollen blanket. CRURA (7) [noun] The shin (tibia and fibula) | [noun] A leglike part; shank CULPA (9) [noun] Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart. CUPPA (11) [noun] (Commonwealth of Nations except Canada) A cup of tea (or sometimes any hot drink). | [noun] (Commonwealth of Nations except Canada) Whatever interests or suits one; one's cup of tea. | [noun] Pronunciation spelling of cup of. CURIA (7) DACHA (11) [noun] A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside. DAGGA (8) [noun] (Zimbabwe) Indian hemp, Cannabis sativa indica, or a similar plant of the genus Leonotis. | [noun] Cement. DELTA (6) [noun] The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ. | [noun] A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water. | [noun] The letter D in the ICAO spelling alphabet, which assigns words to letters of the alphabet. DERMA (8) [noun] The inner layer of the skin; the dermis | [noun] A Jewish dish of roast or boiled seasoned meat and flour etc. in a casing, especially kishke DICTA (8) [noun] An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm. | [noun] A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it. | [noun] The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it. DOBLA (8) DOBRA (8) [noun] The official or principal currency of São Tomé and Príncipe, divided into 100 cêntimos. DOGMA (9) [noun] An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it. | [noun] A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader. DOLMA (8) [noun] Any of a family of stuffed vegetable dishes. The filling generally consists of rice, minced meat or grains, together with onion, herbs and spices. DONGA (7) [noun] A usually dry, eroded watercourse running only in times of heavy rain. | [noun] A transportable building with single rooms, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation. DONNA (6) [noun] A lady, especially a noblewoman; the title given to a lady in Italy. DORSA (6) [noun] The back of the tongue, used for articulating dorsal consonants. | [noun] The top of the foot or the back of the hand. | [noun] The back or dorsal region on the surface of an animal. DOUMA (8) DOURA (6) DRAMA (8) [noun] A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue | [noun] Such a work for television, radio or the cinema (usually one that is not a comedy) | [noun] Theatrical plays in general DULIA (6) [noun] The veneration of saints, distinguished from latria, the worship of God. DUMKA (12) [noun] A genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine. | [noun] An individual composition in this genre. DURRA (6) [noun] A kind of millet, a variety of sorghum; Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor). EDEMA (8) [noun] An excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity. | [noun] A similar swelling in plants caused by excessive accumulation of water. ENEMA (7) [noun] An injection of fluid into the large intestine by way of the rectum, usually for medical purposes. | [noun] The fluid so injected. | [noun] A device for administering such an injection. ENTIA (5) ERICA (7) [noun] Any of many heathers, of the genus Erica, used as garden plants ETYMA (10) [noun] The source word, or words, of a given word or expression. EXTRA (12) [noun] Something additional, such as an item above and beyond the ordinary school curriculum, or added to the usual charge on a bill. | [noun] An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle. | [noun] A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball. FACIA (10) [noun] A wide band of material covering the ends of roof rafters, sometimes supporting a gutter in steep-slope roofing, but typically it is a border or trim in low-slope roofing. | [noun] A face or front cover of an appliance, especially of a mobile phone. | [noun] A dashboard. FAENA (8) FANGA (9) FATWA (11) [noun] A legal opinion, decree or ruling issued by a mufti or other Islamic lawyer. | [verb] To make somebody the subject of a fatwa, especially a ban or death sentence. FAUNA (8) [noun] Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time. | [noun] A book, cataloguing the animals of a country. FELLA (8) [noun] (chiefly South US) used to address a male | [noun] A colleague or partner. | [noun] A companion; a comrade. FERIA (8) [noun] A weekday on a Church calendar on which no feast is observed. FLORA (8) [noun] Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc. | [noun] A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc. | [noun] The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body FLOTA (8) FOLIA (8) [noun] A leaf, especially a thin leaf or plate. | [noun] A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches having a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop. FOSSA (8) [noun] A pit, groove, cavity, or depression. | [noun] A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon. | [noun] A carnivorous mammal endemic to Madagascar, Cryptoprocta ferox. FOVEA (11) [noun] A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ. | [noun] The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision. FRENA (8) GALEA (6) [noun] A Roman helmet. | [noun] An organ or a part of a plant that is shaped like a galea (helmet). | [noun] A mouthpart found in some species of chewing insect, which is shaped like a galea (helmet). GAMBA (10) [noun] A rank of organ pipes, so called for a supposed resemblance of the sound to that of a viola da gamba. | [noun] A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold. | [noun] The metacarpus or metatarsus of ruminants, etc. GAMMA (10) [noun] The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ). | [noun] The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ. | [noun] A constant approximately equal to 0.55721566, symbolized by γ (also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant). GANJA (13) [noun] Marijuana, as used for smoking. GEMMA (10) [noun] A bud; an asexual reproductive structure, as found in liverworts and hydra, able to produce new individuals from a cluster of cells. GENOA (6) [noun] A staysail that resembles a jib but extends aft beyond the mast. | [noun] Genoa cake GENUA (6) [noun] Knee | [noun] A knee-like bend. GLEBA (8) GONIA (6) GRAMA (8) GRANA (6) [noun] A stack-like structure in plant chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; the site of photosynthesis. GUAVA (9) [noun] A tropical tree or shrub of the myrtle family, Psidium guajava. | [noun] Its yellowish tropical fruit, 1¼ to 2 inches, globular or pear-shaped with thin, yellow, green or brown skin, is often made into jams and jellies. The meat is yellowish or pale green to pink in color. | [noun] A medium reddish-pink colour, like that of guava flesh (also called guava pink). GUMMA (10) [noun] A soft, non-cancerous growth, a form of granuloma, resulting from the tertiary stage of syphilis. GUTTA (6) HAIKA (12) HALMA (10) [noun] A board game invented by George Howard Monks in which the players' men jump over those in adjacent squares. | [noun] In the Greek pentathlon, the long jump with weights in the hands. HALVA (11) [noun] A confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey. It is a traditional dessert in South Asia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. HAMZA (19) [noun] A sign (ء‎ - a stand-alone hamza) used in the written Arabic language representing a glottal stop. Hamza may appear as a stand-alone letter or most commonly diacritically over or under other letters, e.g. أ‎ (over an alif - ا‎), إ‎ (under an alif), ؤ‎ (over a wāw - و‎) or ئ‎ (over a dotless yāʾ - ى‎). The exact seat of hamza is governed by an orthographic rule - "seat of hamza rule". HANSA (8) HENNA (8) [noun] A shrub, Lawsonia inermis, having fragrant reddish flowers | [noun] A reddish plant substance, prepared from the dried leaves of this plant, used for temporary tattoos and hair coloring. Hair colorings range from bright red to earth brown to near black. | [noun] A rich reddish-brown colour. HERMA (10) HOLLA (8) [verb] To cry "hollo" | [interjection] Hey, hello | [verb] To shout out or greet casually. HONDA (9) HOOKA (12) HOSTA (8) [noun] Any of several herbaceous Asiatic plants of the genus Hosta. HUZZA (26) [noun] A cheer often associated with sailors, shouted by a group in praise of a thing or event. | [verb] To cheer with a huzzah sound. | [interjection] Used as a call for coordinated physical effort, as in hoisting. HYDRA (12) [noun] Any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera, having a naked cylindrical body and an oral opening surrounded by tentacles. | [noun] A dragon-like creature with many heads and the ability to regrow them when maimed. | [noun] A complex, multifarious problem or situation that cannot be solved easily and rapidly. HYENA (11) [noun] Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the subfamily Hyaeninae (genera Hyaena and Crocuta), native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited. | [noun] (Sub-Saharan Africa) A man that performs ritualized sex acts with recently widowed women and menarchal girls. HYPHA (16) [noun] Any of the long, threadlike filaments that form the mycelium of a fungus. INFRA (8) [adverb] Discussed later. | [noun] Infrastructure. IXORA (12) JAGRA (13) JNANA (12) JUNTA (12) [noun] A council, convention, tribunal or assembly; especially, the grand council of state in Spain. | [noun] The ruling council of a military dictatorship. KALPA (11) [noun] A period of 4.32 billion years (1000 yugas). KAPPA (13) [noun] The tenth letter of the Greek alphabet. | [noun] A measurement of the sensitivity of the value of an option to changes in the implied volatility of the price of the underlying asset. | [noun] A tortoise-like creature in the Japanese mythology. KARMA (11) [noun] The sum total of a person's actions, which determine the person's next incarnation in samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth. | [noun] A force or law of nature which causes one to reap what one sows; destiny; fate. | [noun] A distinctive feeling, aura, or atmosphere. KASHA (12) [noun] A porridge made from boiled buckwheat groats, or sometimes from other cereal groats. KHEDA (13) KIBLA (11) [noun] The direction in which Muslims face while praying, currently determined as the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca. KOALA (9) [noun] A tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia. KOPPA (13) KRONA (9) [noun] The official currency of Sweden. KURTA (9) [noun] A traditional article of clothing worn in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, consisting of a loose, collarless, long-sleeved, knee-length shirt worn by both men and women. LABIA (7) [noun] The folds of tissue at the opening of the vulva, at either side of the vagina. | [noun] A liplike structure; especially one of the two pairs of folds of skin either side of the vulva. | [noun] The lip of a labiate corolla. LABRA (7) [noun] The uppermost of the mouthparts (trophi) of a typical insect, such as a cockroach. Typically resembles an upper lip and forms part of the roof of the mouth in such insects. | [noun] Any of several lip-like projections. | [noun] A large basin of warm water, with an overhanging lip, in a Roman bath. LAMIA (7) [noun] A monster preying upon human beings and who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent. LARVA (8) [noun] An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish. | [noun] An animal in the aforementioned stage. | [noun] A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage. LAURA (5) LEHUA (8) LEMMA (9) [noun] A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition. | [noun] The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc. | [noun] (psycholinguistics) The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word. | [noun] The outer shell of a fruit or similar body. LEPTA (7) [noun] A coin used since ancient times in Greece, serving in modern times as one hundredth of a phoenix, a drachma, and a euro (as the Greek form of the Eurocent). | [noun] A small, bronze Judean coin from the 1st century B.C.E., considered by some to be the widow's mite. | [noun] An elementary particle that has a spin of 1/2 (i.e., is a fermion) and does not interact via the strong nuclear force; examples include the electron, the muon, the neutrino and the tauon. LIANA (5) [noun] A climbing woody vine, usually tropical. LIBRA (7) [noun] A Roman unit of weight equal to about 327 grams. | [noun] Any of various units of weight in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries approximately equal to 460 grams or a little more than a US or UK pound. | [noun] Alternative spelling of libbra, an Italian unit of weight. LIMBA (9) [noun] A large African tree, Terminalia superba, whose hard wood is used for furniture, table tennis paddles and musical instruments. LIMPA (9) LINGA (6) [noun] (Shaivism) The aniconic representation traditionally worshipped as a symbol of or in connection with Shiva. LLAMA (7) [noun] A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat. LOGIA (6) [noun] A traditional saying of a religious leader. | [noun] (specifically) A saying that is attributed to Jesus in ancient or reconstructed texts that was (originally) handed down without narrative context. LOOFA (8) [noun] A tropical vine, of the genus Luffa, having almost cylindrical fruit with a spongy, fibrous interior; the dishcloth gourd | [noun] The dried fibrous interior used as a sponge for bathing | [noun] Any bathing sponge LUFFA (11) [noun] A tropical vine, of the genus Luffa, having almost cylindrical fruit with a spongy, fibrous interior; the dishcloth gourd | [noun] The dried fibrous interior used as a sponge for bathing | [noun] Any bathing sponge LUTEA (5) LYCEA (10) LYSSA (8) LYTTA (8) MAFIA (10) [noun] A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion. | [noun] A crime syndicate. | [noun] A trusted group of associates, as of a political leader. MAGMA (10) [noun] The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc. | [noun] A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation. | [noun] Any soft doughy mass. MAMBA (11) [noun] Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees. MAMMA (11) [noun] The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae) | [noun] An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera | [noun] (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent. MANIA (7) [noun] Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. | [noun] Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism. | [noun] The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels. MANNA (7) [noun] Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus. | [noun] (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck. | [noun] The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.http//www.museum.vic.gov.au/forest/plants/gum.html MANTA (7) [noun] A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States. | [noun] Any of several very large pelagic rays of the genus Manta, with winglike pectoral fins, a long tail, and two fins resembling horns that project from the head. MARIA (7) [noun] A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea. | [noun] On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons. MASSA (7) [noun] Someone who has control over something or someone. | [noun] The owner of an animal or slave. | [noun] The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner. MATZA (16) MBIRA (9) [noun] A thumb piano, a musical instrument having a small sound box fitted with a row of tuned tabs that are plucked with the thumbs, originating among the Shona of southern Africa; any type of plucked lamellophone of the same type as the Shona instrument. MECCA (11) MEDIA (8) [noun] The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue. | [noun] A voiced stop consonant. | [noun] One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus | [noun] Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information. MENSA (7) MENTA (7) MICRA (9) MIKRA (11) MILIA (7) [noun] A keratin-filled cyst that can appear just under the epidermis or on the roof of the mouth. MILPA (9) MIRZA (16) MOCHA (12) [noun] A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof; a caffè mocha. | [noun] A coffee and chocolate mixed flavour. | [noun] A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee. MOIRA (7) MOMMA (11) [noun] Mother | [noun] A voluptuous woman. | [noun] One's wife or girlfriend. MOOLA (7) [noun] Money, cash. MUDRA (8) [noun] Any of several formal symbolic hand postures used in classical dance of India and in Hindu and Buddhist iconography. | [noun] Any of the formal body positions and postures used in yoga and meditation. MULLA (7) [noun] A religious scholar and teacher of sharia law. MURRA (7) MUSCA (9) MYOMA (12) NAIRA (5) [noun] The official currency of Nigeria, which replaced the pound in 1973; the principal denomination of the currency, equal to 100 kobo. NINJA (12) [noun] An adult male human. | [noun] (collective) All human males collectively: mankind. | [noun] A human, a person of either gender, usually an adult. (See usage notes.) NORIA (5) [noun] A water wheel with attached buckets, used to raise and deposit water. | [noun] Any machine using buckets to raise water to an aqueduct. NUBIA (7) NUCHA (10) NYALA (8) [noun] A southern African antelope, Tragelaphus angasii (syn. Nyala angasii), with thin white stripes in the grey or brown coat, a ridge of tufted hair running all along the spine, and long horns with a spiral twist. OCREA (7) [noun] A sheath around a plant stem forming from the stipule of a leaf and extending above the point of insertion of the leaf. OIDIA (6) [noun] A fragile spore produced by some fungi. | [noun] The fungus Erysiphe necator (= Uncinula necator), which produces powdery mildew in grapes. OMASA (7) [noun] The third part of the stomach of a ruminant. OMEGA (8) [noun] The twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: Ω; lowercase: ω. | [noun] (often capitalized) The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence. | [noun] Angular velocity; symbol: ω. OPERA (7) [noun] A theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance. | [noun] The score for such a work. | [noun] A building designed for the performance of such works; an opera house. | [noun] A work of music or set of works with a specified rank in an ordering of a composer's complete published works. OSSIA (5) OSTIA (5) [noun] A small opening or orifice, as in a body organ or passage. | [noun] Any of the small openings or pores in a sponge. | [noun] The mouth of a river. PACHA (12) [noun] A high-ranking Turkish military officer, especially as a commander or regional governor; the highest honorary title during the Ottoman Empire. | [noun] The Indian butterfly Herona marathus, family Nymphalidae. PAISA (7) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a rupee in various Asian countries. | [noun] (British India) A subdivision of currency equivalent to 1/64 of a rupee or three pies. | [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Bangladeshi taka. | [noun] A Mexican national, especially a rural or rustic one. PALEA (7) [noun] The interior chaff or husk of grasses. | [noun] One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower. | [noun] A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap. PAMPA (11) PANDA (8) [noun] The red panda (Ailurus fulgens), a small raccoon-like animal of northeast Asia with reddish fur and a long, ringed tail. | [noun] Short for giant panda. | [noun] (law enforcement) Short for panda car. | [noun] A brahmin who acts as the hereditary superintendent of a particular ghat or temple, and is regarded as knowledgeable in matters of genealogy and ritual. PANGA (8) [noun] A large broad-bladed knife. | [noun] Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially the iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus, now reclassified as Pangasianodon hypophthalmus. | [noun] A type of modest-sized, open, outboard-powered, fishing boat common throughout much of the developing world, including Central America, the Caribbean, parts of Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia. | [noun] A small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America. PARKA (11) [noun] A long jacket with a hood which protects the wearer against rain and wind. PASHA (10) [noun] A high-ranking Turkish military officer, especially as a commander or regional governor; the highest honorary title during the Ottoman Empire. | [noun] The Indian butterfly Herona marathus, family Nymphalidae. PASTA (7) [noun] Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating. | [noun] A dish or serving of pasta. | [noun] A type of pasta. PENNA (7) [noun] A contour feather PEPLA (9) PEREA (7) PHYLA (13) [noun] A tribe. | [noun] A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank | [noun] A large division of possibly related languages, or a major language family which is not subordinate to another. PIETA (7) [noun] A sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus. PILEA (7) [noun] The top of a bird's head, from the base of the bill to the nape. PINNA (7) [noun] The visible part of the ear that resides outside of the head, the auricle; outer ear excluding the ear canal. | [noun] A leaflet or primary segment of a pinnate compound leaf. | [noun] A feather, wing, fin, or other similar appendage. PINTA (7) [noun] A pint of milk. | [noun] A human skin disease endemic to Mexico, Central America, and South America, caused by infection with a spirochete, Treponema pallidum carateum, which is morphologically and serologically indistinguishable from the organism that causes syphilis. | [noun] (Chicano) prison PIZZA (25) [noun] A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread dough crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese and other ingredients such as meat, vegetables or fruit | [noun] A single instance of this dish PLAYA (10) [noun] A level area which habitually fills with water that evaporates entirely. | [noun] A dude (an informal term of address or general term to describe a person, typically male). | [noun] A player (someone who plays the field, or has prowess in gaining romantic and sexual relationships). PLAZA (16) [noun] A town's public square. | [noun] An open area used for gathering in a city, often having small trees and sitting benches. | [noun] A strip mall. PLENA (7) PLICA (9) [noun] A fold or crease, especially of skin or other tissue. | [noun] Polish plait, plica polonica, or plica neuropatica: a disease of the hair in which it becomes twisted and matted together. | [noun] A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches. PODIA (8) [noun] A platform on which to stand, as when conducting an orchestra or preaching at a pulpit. | [noun] (sometimes proscribed) A stand used to hold notes when speaking publicly. | [noun] A steepled platform upon which the three competitors with the best results may stand when being handed their medals or prize. POLKA (11) [noun] A lively dance originating in Bohemia. | [noun] The music for this dance. | [noun] A polka jacket. POPPA (11) [noun] (sometimes childish) father, papa. PRESA (7) PRIMA (9) PRUTA (7) PUCKA (13) [adjective] (originally South Asia) Genuine or authentic; hence of behaviour: correct, socially acceptable or proper. | [adjective] Superior or of high quality; first-class. | [adjective] Excellent, fantastic, great. PUKKA (15) [adjective] (originally South Asia) Genuine or authentic; hence of behaviour: correct, socially acceptable or proper. | [adjective] Superior or of high quality; first-class. | [adjective] Excellent, fantastic, great. PUNKA (11) PURDA (8) QUOTA (14) [noun] A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division. | [noun] A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal. | [noun] A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity. REATA (5) RECTA (7) [noun] The terminal part of the large intestine through which feces pass after exiting the colon. REDIA (6) REGMA (8) REGNA (6) RETIA (5) [noun] A network of blood vessels or nerves. | [noun] An anatomical part resembling or including a network. | [noun] A rotating cutaway plate or overlay on an astrolabe or starmap which represents the horizon; used to locate stars and other astronomical features. RHYTA (11) [noun] A container from which fluids are intended to be drunk, having one handle and usually a base in the form of a head. | [noun] A Thracian drinking horn. RIATA (5) RIOJA (12) [noun] The wine (mostly red) of that region RUANA (5) RUMBA (9) [noun] A slow-paced Cuban partner dance in 4:4 time. | [verb] To dance the rumba SABRA (7) [noun] A native-born Israeli. SACRA (7) [noun] Sacral artery | [noun] A large triangular bone at the base of the spine, located between the two ilia (wings of the pelvis) and formed from vertebrae that fuse in adulthood. SAIGA (6) [noun] Saiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia. SALPA (7) SALSA (5) [noun] A spicy tomato sauce, often including onions and hot peppers. | [noun] A style of urban music originally from New York heavily influenced by Cuban dance music, jazz and rock. | [noun] Any of several dances performed to salsa music. SAMBA (9) [noun] A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style. | [noun] A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade. | [verb] To dance the samba. SANGA (6) [noun] Sandwich. SAUNA (5) [noun] A room or a house designed for heat sessions. | [noun] The act of using a sauna. | [noun] A public sauna; a front for a brothel in some countries. SCENA (7) [noun] A scene in an opera. | [noun] An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria. | [noun] The stage of an ancient theatre. SCHWA (13) [noun] An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA. | [noun] The character ə. SCUBA (9) [noun] (underwater diving) An apparatus carried by a diver, which includes a tank holding compressed, filtered air and a regulator which delivers the air to the diver at ambient pressure which can be used underwater. | [verb] To perform scuba diving. SCUTA (7) [noun] A scutum. SELVA (8) [noun] Heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin. SENNA (5) [noun] Any of several plants of the tribe Cassieae, especially those of the genera Cassia and Senna, whose leaves and pods are used as a purgative and laxative. | [noun] The dried leaves or pods of these plants (especially of Senna alexandrina, syn. Cassia angustifolia or Cassia acutifolia), used medicinally. | [noun] Senna glycoside, a laxative. SENSA (5) SEPIA (7) [noun] A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish. | [noun] A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour. | [noun] (by extension) A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph. SEPTA (7) [noun] A wall separating two cavities; a partition | [noun] A partition that separates the cells of a fruit. | [noun] A partition that separates the cells of a (septated) fungus. SHIVA (11) [noun] A weeklong period of formal mourning for a close relative. SIGMA (8) [noun] The eighteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets, the twentieth letter of Old and Ancient. | [noun] The symbol Σ, used to indicate summation of a set or series. | [noun] The symbol σ, used to indicate one standard deviation from the mean, particularly in a normal distribution. SILVA (8) SIRRA (5) SOFTA (8) [noun] A religious student, especially in Turkey | [noun] (by extension) A fanatic adherent, blind follower SPICA (9) [noun] A spike. | [noun] A spur. | [noun] A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; a spiral bandage with reversed turns. SPUTA (7) STELA (5) [noun] An obelisk or upright stone pillar, usually as a primitive commemoration or gravestone STOMA (7) [noun] One of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass. | [noun] A small opening in a membrane; a surgically constructed opening, especially one in the abdominal wall that permits the passage of waste after a colostomy or ileostomy. | [noun] A mouthlike opening, such as the oral cavity of a nematode. STRIA (5) [noun] A stripe, usually one of a set of parallel stripes. | [noun] One of the fillets between the flutes of columns, etc. | [noun] A stretch mark. STUPA (7) [noun] A dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha. | [noun] A stupe (medicated cloth or sponge). SULFA (8) [noun] A sulfonamide or sulfanilamide. | [adjective] Of or containing sulfonamide or sulfanilamide. SUMMA (9) [noun] A comprehensive summary of, or treatise on a subject, especially theology or philosophy. SUNNA (5) SUPRA (7) [adverb] Used to indicate that the current citation is from the same source as the previous one. | [noun] A traditional Georgian feast. SURRA (5) [noun] A disease of vertebrate animals caused by protozoan trypanosomes, involving fever, weakness, and lethargy. SUTRA (5) [noun] A rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy. | [noun] A scriptural narrative, especially a discourse of the Buddha. SUTTA (5) [noun] A rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy. | [noun] A scriptural narrative, especially a discourse of the Buddha. SYLVA (11) TABLA (7) [noun] A pair of tuned hand drums, used in various musical genres of the Indian subcontinent, that are similar to bongos. TAFIA (8) [noun] A variety of rum. TAIGA (6) [noun] A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere. TANKA (9) [noun] A form of Japanese verse in five lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 morae. | [noun] A strong, forceful expression | [noun] A Tibetan painting of the Buddha on fabric. | [noun] An ethnic group of boat people in the Canton area. | [noun] A coin and unit of currency of varying value, formerly used in parts of India and Central Asia. TAZZA (23) [noun] A shallow saucer-like dish, mounted either on a stem and foot or on a foot alone. TECTA (7) [noun] The dorsal portion of the midbrain of vertebrates; in mammals, containing the superior colliculus and inferior colliculus | [noun] The interconnected outer surface of a spore. TEGUA (6) TELIA (5) TENIA (5) [noun] A ribbon worn in the hair in ancient Greece. | [noun] (Doric architecture) A band between the frieze and architrave in the Doric order. | [noun] Any of several ribbon-like bands of tissue. TERGA (6) [noun] The upper or dorsal surface of an articulated animal such as an arthropod. TERRA (5) [noun] (astrogeology) A rough upland or mountainous region of the Moon with a relatively high albedo. TESLA (5) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity. Symbol: T TESTA (5) [noun] A seed coat. | [noun] The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm; the test. TETRA (5) [noun] Any of numerous species of small South American freshwater fish of the family Characidae, popular in home aquariums. THECA (10) [noun] Any external case or sheath. | [noun] The pollen-producing organ usually found in pairs and forming an anther. | [noun] The twin layers of cells surrounding the basal lamina of an ovarian follicle. THETA (8) [noun] The eighth letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek: Θ, θ. | [noun] The measure of an angle. | [noun] The sensitivity of the value of a derivative with respect to time; the "time decay". THUJA (15) [noun] A tree of the genus Thuja. THUYA (11) [noun] Any member of the genus Thuya. TIARA (5) [noun] The papal crown. | [noun] An ornamental coronet. TIBIA (7) [noun] The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone | [noun] The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus. | [noun] The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus. TINEA (5) [noun] A fungal infection of the skin, known generally as ringworm. TONGA (6) [noun] A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. | [noun] A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum. TRONA (5) [noun] A saline evaporite, consisting of mixture of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate, Na3HCO3CO3·2H2O. TRYMA (10) TSUBA (7) [noun] The guard at the end of the grip of a sword. ULAMA (7) [noun] A (modern) ball game, descended from tlachtli. | [noun] The devil bird (an avian cryptid of Sri Lanka) ULEMA (7) [noun] An educated scholar of Islamic law; a member of the ulema class ULTRA (5) [noun] An ultraroyalist in France. | [noun] An extremist, especially an ultranationalist. | [noun] An especially devoted football fan, typically associated with the intimidating use of extremist slogans, pyrotechnics and sometimes hooligan violence. UMBRA (9) [noun] The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object. | [noun] The central region of a sunspot. | [noun] A shadow. UNCIA (7) URBIA (7) USNEA (5) UVULA (8) [noun] The fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing. | [noun] The slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary bladder, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate. | [noun] An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clapper. VACUA (10) [noun] A region of space that contains no matter. | [noun] (plural only "vacuums") A vacuum cleaner. | [noun] The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, such as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc. VANDA (9) VARIA (8) VARNA (8) [noun] Any of the four original castes in Hinduism, or the system of such castes VEENA (8) [noun] A plucked stringed instrument with five or seven steel strings stretched on a long fretted finger-board over two gourds, used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music. VESTA (8) [noun] A short match, made of wood or wax VILLA (8) [noun] (plural "villas") A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat. | [noun] (plural "villas") A family house, often semi-detached, in a middle class street. | [noun] (plural "villae") A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard. VINCA (10) [noun] Any of several evergreen shrubs, of the genus Vinca, including the periwinkle VIOLA (8) [noun] A stringed instrument of the violin family, somewhat larger than a violin, played under the chin, and having a deeper tone. | [noun] An organ stop having a similar tone. | [noun] A 10-string steel-string acoustic guitar, used in Brazilian folk music. | [noun] (botany) Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Viola, including the violets and pansies. | [interjection] Lo, there it is; see here; ta-da; presto; behold! VIRGA (9) [noun] A type of note used in plainsong notation, having a tail and representing a single tone. | [noun] A streak of rain or snow that is dissipated in falling and does not reach the ground, commonly appearing descending from a cloud layer. | [noun] (measurement) A unit of length: a rod, pole or perch (5½ yards); or a unit of area: a square rod, pole or perch. VISTA (8) [noun] A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or passage. | [noun] A site offering such a view. | [noun] A vision; a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination. VITTA (8) [noun] A fillet, or garland for the head. | [noun] A longitudinal stripe. | [noun] An oil tube in the fruit of some plants. VODKA (13) [noun] A clear distilled alcoholic liquor made from grain mash. | [noun] A serving of the above beverage. | [noun] Neutral spirits distilled (or treated after distillation) so as to have no distinctive character, aroma, taste or color. VOILA (8) [interjection] Lo, there it is; see here; ta-da; presto; behold! VOLTA (8) VOLVA (11) [noun] A cup-shaped mass at the base of various fungi. | [noun] In Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy. | [noun] (by extension) Any prophetess, sooth-sayer, or witch. VULVA (11) [noun] The external female sexual organs, collectively. WALLA (8) WIRRA (8) [interjection] Exclamation of dismay. WISHA (11) XENIA (12) YENTA (8) [noun] A woman who meddles in the business of others; a busybody; a female gossipmonger. | [noun] (Jewish) A matchmaker; a woman who specializes in finding spouses. YERBA (10) [noun] Ilex paraguariensis, a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant, used to make the caffeine-rich beverage mate. YUCCA (12) [noun] Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms. | [noun] The yuca (cassava). YURTA (8) ZAMIA (16) [noun] Any of various cycads of the genera Zamia and Macrozamia ZANZA (23) ZEBRA (16) [noun] Any of three species of genus Equus: E. grevyi, E. quagga, or E. zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa. | [noun] A referee. | [noun] An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment. (Originates in the advice often given to medical students: "when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras".)

ABASIA (8) ABELIA (8) [noun] Any of the various honeysuckles of the genus Abelia. ABOLLA (8) ABULIA (8) [noun] Absence of willpower or decisiveness, especially as a symptom of mental illness. ACACIA (10) [noun] A shrub or tree of the tribe Acacieae. | [noun] The thickened or dried juice of several species in Acacieae, in particular Vachellia nilotica (syn. Acacia nilotica), the Egyptian acacia. | [noun] A false acacia; robinia tree, Robinia pseudoacacia. | [noun] (history) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals. ACEDIA (9) [noun] Spiritual or mental sloth. | [noun] Apathy; a lack of care or interest; indifference. | [noun] Boredom. ADNEXA (14) [noun] The appendages of an organ, such as the fallopian tubes of the uterus. AFTOSA (9) AGENDA (8) [noun] A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to. | [noun] A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting). | [noun] A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner. AHIMSA (11) [noun] A doctrine of non-violence, concerned with the sacredness of all living things and an effort to avoid causing harm to them. ALASKA (10) ALBATA (8) [noun] An alloy of copper, nickel, and zinc, used as a substitute for silver. ALEXIA (13) [noun] Word blindness, the inability, due to a cerebral disorder, to comprehend or understand writing. ALODIA (7) ALPACA (10) [noun] A sheep-like animal of the Andes, Vicugna pacos, in the camel family, closely related to the llama, guanaco, and vicuña. | [noun] Wool from the alpaca. ALTHEA (9) ALUMNA (8) [noun] A female pupil or student (especially of a university or college). | [noun] A female graduate. AMARNA (8) AMOEBA (10) [noun] A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia. | [noun] The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers. | [noun] An asexual. AMRITA (8) [noun] In Hindu and Buddhist mythology, the drink of the gods that confers immortality. | [noun] Nectar or elixir in general. AMUSIA (8) [noun] A neurological condition characterized by the inability to perceive, appreciate, or produce music. ANEMIA (8) [noun] A medical condition in which the capacity of the blood to transport oxygen to the tissues is reduced, either because of too few red blood cells, or because of too little hemoglobin, resulting in pallor and fatigue. | [noun] A disease or condition that has anemia as a symptom. | [noun] (obsolete) Ischemia. ANGINA (7) [noun] An inflammatory infection of the throat, particularly quinsy. | [noun] Short for angina pectoris. | [noun] A chest pain or shortness of breath occurring with lesser degrees of arterial blockage. ANGORA (7) [noun] An angora cat. | [noun] A goat of a domesticated breed that produces mohair. | [noun] A rabbit belonging to the Angora rabbit breed, one of the oldest domestic breeds of rabbits in the world, raised chiefly in Europe for its silky and long hair (a subspecies of the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus) ANOPIA (8) [noun] A condition of partial or complete loss of vision in one or both eyes. ANOXIA (13) [noun] A condition in which a tissue or environment is severely or totally deprived of oxygen, severe hypoxia. ANURIA (6) [noun] A condition in which the kidneys do not produce urine. APHTHA (14) [noun] Candidiasis, oral thrush, thrush (fungal infection of the mucous membranes of the mouth caused by any species of yeast from the genus Candida) | [noun] An oral ulcer, disregarding the cause. | [noun] Foot-and-mouth disease APNOEA (8) [noun] A temporary cessation of breathing, especially during sleep. ARCANA (8) [noun] Specialized knowledge that is mysterious to the uninitiated. | [noun] A mystery or deep secret. | [noun] An elixir or secret remedy. AREOLA (6) [noun] The colored circle around a nipple, more exactly known as areola mammae. | [noun] Any small circular area that is different from its immediate environment, such as the colored ring around the pupil of the eye (iris) or an inflamed region surrounding a pimple. | [noun] Any of the small spaces throughout areolar connective tissue. ARGALA (7) [noun] A Sanskrit term for an astrology concept, or a bolting or fastening device. | [noun] In Hindu architecture, a projection or corbel used as a decorative or structural element. ARISTA (6) [noun] A bristle-like appendage or extension on the grain of grasses and cereals, such as barley or wheat. | [noun] In botany, a slender bristle-like projection from a plant structure. ARMADA (9) [noun] A fleet of warships, especially with reference to the Spanish Armada. | [noun] Any large army or fleet of military vessels. | [noun] A large flock of anything. ARNICA (8) [noun] Any of several plants, of the genus Arnica, considered to have medicinal properties, especially Arnica montana. ARROBA (8) [noun] A unit of weight used in Spanish-speaking countries, equal to approximately 25 pounds. | [noun] The @ symbol used in email addresses. ASRAMA (8) [noun] One of the four stages of life in Hinduism, comprising studenthood, householdership, forest retirement, and renunciation. ASTHMA (11) [noun] A long-term respiratory condition, in which the airways may unexpectedly and suddenly narrow, often in response to an allergen, cold air, exercise, or emotional stress. Symptoms include wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing. ATAXIA (13) [noun] Lack of coordination while performing voluntary movements, which may appear to be clumsiness, inaccuracy, or instability. | [noun] The condition of a polymer in which the orientation of the subunits is random | [noun] Disorder; irregularity. AUCUBA (10) [noun] Any of several decorative evergreen shrubs of the genus Aucuba. AURORA (6) [noun] An atmospheric phenomenon created by charged particles from the sun striking the upper atmosphere, creating coloured lights in the sky. It is usually named australis or borealis based on whether it is in the Southern or Northern Hemisphere respectively. AXILLA (13) [noun] The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs. | [noun] The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder. AZALEA (15) [noun] A plant of the obsolete genus Azalea. BACULA (10) [noun] A bone found in the penis of some mammals | [noun] A small rod-like structure found in spores and pollen BALATA (8) [noun] Manilkara bidentata, a large South American tree that yields latex and edible yellow berries. | [noun] The latex obtained from this tree. BALBOA (10) [noun] The currency of Panama, divided into 100 centésimos BANANA (8) [noun] An elongated curved tropical fruit that grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin. | [noun] The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, usually of the genus Musa but sometimes also including plants from Ensete, has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain. | [noun] A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin. BARYTA (11) [noun] Any of several compounds of barium, especially barium sulphate and barium hydroxide. BEFLEA (11) BELUGA (9) [noun] A cetacean, Delphinapterus leucas, found in the Arctic Ocean. | [noun] A fish, Huso huso, found in the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, that is a source of caviar. BEMATA (10) [noun] A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. | [noun] Raised area of worship in a synagogue upon which rests the Holy Ark containing Scrolls of Torah. BERTHA (11) [noun] A lace collar that covers the shoulders of a dress BHAKTA (15) [noun] Someone who practises bhakti; a person who is devoted to God; a devotee; a worshipper. BILBOA (10) BOCCIA (12) [noun] A sport, similar to bocce, designed to be played by people with impaired motor skills. BODEGA (10) [noun] A storehouse for maturing wine, a winery. | [noun] A store specializing in Hispanic groceries. | [noun] Any convenience store. BONITA (8) [noun] A large Atlantic food and game fish with an iridescent body, also called a bonito. BRAHMA (13) [noun] A Hindu deity associated with creation, the first god in the Trimurti. | [noun] A large domesticated chicken breed originating from Asia. BREGMA (11) [noun] The point on the skull where the coronal and sagittal sutures meet. BUCKRA (14) [noun] A white person. | [noun] A poor white person. | [adjective] White. BUGSHA (12) BUQSHA (20) [noun] A monetary unit of Yemen, equal to one twentieth of a rial. BUSHWA (14) [noun] Nonsense. CABALA (10) [proper noun] A body of mystical Jewish teachings based on an esoteric reading of the Hebrew scriptures. CABANA (10) [noun] A cabin or hut for relaxing. | [noun] A shelter on a beach or at a swimming pool. CAEOMA (10) [noun] A fruiting structure of rust fungi that produces aecial spores, representing an early stage in the fungal life cycle. CALESA (8) [noun] A two-wheeled or four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage used in the Philippines and other parts of Southeast Asia. CAMBIA (12) [noun] A layer of cells between the xylem and the phloem that is responsible for the secondary growth of roots and stems. | [noun] Periosteum, a membrane that covers the outer surface of bones | [noun] One of the humours formerly believed to nourish the bodily organs. CAMERA (10) [noun] A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs. | [noun] The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation. | [noun] A vaulted room. CAMISA (10) [noun] A shirt or chemise, used in English from Spanish contexts or historical texts. CANCHA (13) [noun] A playing field or court, especially for ball games like polo or jai alai. CANOLA (8) [noun] Any of a number of cultivars of rapeseed (Brassica napus) and closely related field mustard (Brassica rapa), which have a lower erucic acid and glucosinolate content than traditional rapeseed. CANULA (8) [noun] A small tube inserted into a vein or body cavity for administering medication or draining fluids; also spelled cannula. CAPITA (10) [noun] A Latin term meaning "by heads" or "per person," used in phrases like "per capita" to indicate distribution or calculation on an individual basis. CARDIA (9) [noun] The area of the stomach which directly receives contents from the esophagus. | [noun] The heart. CARINA (8) [noun] A longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat. | [noun] Part of a papilionaceous flower consisting of two petals, commonly united, which encloses the organs of fructification. | [noun] The keel of the breastbone of birds. CASABA (10) [noun] A variety of melon. CASAVA (11) [noun] A tropical plant with starchy roots used to make tapioca and cassava flour. CASITA (8) [noun] A small, attached but self-contained house or apartment CASSIA (8) [noun] The spice made from the bark of members of the genus Cinnamomum other than true cinnamon (C. verum), when they are distinguished from cinnamon. | [noun] Such trees themselves, particularly the Chinese cinnamon, Cinnamomum cassia. | [noun] Any of several tropical leguminous plants, of the genus Cassia. CATENA (8) [noun] A series of related items. | [noun] A series of distinct soils arrayed along a slope. CEDULA (9) [noun] A certificate or official document, particularly an identification card or pass used in Spanish-speaking countries. CENTRA (8) [noun] A center. | [noun] The central body of a vertebra; the solid piece to which the arches and some other parts are or may be attached. | [noun] The basis or fundamental portion of one of the cranial segments, regarded as analogous to vertebrae. CESURA (8) [noun] A pause or break in a line of poetry, typically occurring in the middle of a foot or between feet. | [noun] A break or division in a musical phrase. CHACMA (15) [noun] A large baboon native to southern Africa, characterized by a dark coat and dog-like snout. CHAETA (11) [noun] A chitinous bristle of an annelid worm CHAKRA (15) [noun] (Ayurveda) Any of (at least more than) seven centres of spiritual energy in the body, according to Ayurveda philosophy. CHALLA (11) [noun] A braided loaf of bread traditionally eaten by Jewish people on the Sabbath and holidays. CHARKA (15) [noun] A domestic spinning wheel, used mostly for spinning cotton. CHIMLA (13) CHOANA (11) [noun] An opening at the back of the nasal cavity that leads to the nasopharynx. CHOLLA (11) [noun] Any of several species of cactus in the genus Cylindropuntia, having very spiny, cylindrical stem segments. CHOREA (11) [noun] An Ancient Greek circular dance accompanied by a chorus. | [noun] Any of the various diseases of the nervous system characterized by involuntary muscular movements of the face and extremities; St. Vitus's dance. CHROMA (13) [noun] The colorfulness relative to the brightness of a similarly illuminated area | [noun] The aspect of a colour's hue that depends on the amount of white or black in it; saturation | [noun] A note in a chromatic scale CHUKKA (19) [noun] Chukka boot | [noun] One of the six playing periods, each 7½ minutes long, of a game of polo. CICADA (11) [noun] Any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings. CICALA (10) [noun] A large cicada or a shrill-voiced insect of the order Hemiptera. | [noun] In music, a drone or continuous sound. CINEMA (10) [noun] A movie theatre, a movie house | [noun] Films collectively. | [noun] The film and movie industry. CITOLA (8) [noun] A medieval stringed musical instrument played with a bow, similar to a vielle. | [noun] A book or list, especially one kept by a clerk or official. CLIVIA (11) [noun] Any plant of the genus Clivia, native to southern Africa. CLOACA (10) [noun] (sometimes figurative) A sewer. | [noun] The duct in reptiles, amphibians and birds, as well as most fish and some mammals, which serves as the common outlet for urination, defecation, and reproduction. | [noun] An outhouse or lavatory. CODEIA (9) CONCHA (13) [noun] Any shell-shaped structure. | [noun] The deepest indentation of the cartilage of the human ear, attaching to the mastoid bone. | [noun] Any of the nasal conchae. CONTRA (8) [noun] A deal to swap goods or services. | [noun] A conservative; originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries. | [noun] An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account). COPPRA (12) COPULA (10) [noun] (grammar) A word, usually a verb, used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate (usually a subject complement or an adverbial), that unites or associates the subject with the predicate. | [noun] A function that represents the association between two or more variables, independent of the individual marginal distributions of the variables. | [noun] A device that connects two or more keyboards of an organ. CORNEA (8) [noun] The transparent layer making up the outermost front part of the eye, covering the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber. CORNUA (8) [noun] A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn. CORONA (8) [noun] The luminous plasma atmosphere of the Sun or other star, extending millions of kilometres into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse. | [noun] A circle or set of circles visible around a bright celestial object, especially the Sun or the Moon, attributable to an optical phenomenon produced by the diffraction of its light by small water droplets or tiny ice crystals. | [noun] (by extension) Any luminous or crownlike ring around an object or person. | [noun] A coronavirus, especially SARS-CoV-2. | [noun] A series of sonnets linked together in a particular manner. | [noun] A long, straight-sided cigar with a roundly blunt end. CORYZA (20) [noun] Inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity, usually causing a running nose, nasal congestion and loss of smell. COWPEA (13) [noun] Any of the plants in the species Vigna unguiculata, including the black-eyed pea. CRANIA (8) [noun] The braincase or neurocranium; that part of the skull consisting of the bones enclosing the brain, but not including the bones of the face or jaw. | [noun] The upper portion of the skull, including the neurocranium and facial bones, but not including the jawbone (mandible). | [noun] The skull. CRISSA (8) [noun] The region between the anus and the external genitals in mammals. | [noun] The ventral surface of the hind body in birds, between the anus and tail. CRISTA (8) [noun] The internal compartments formed by the inner membrane of a mitochondrion, where many chemical reactions take place. | [noun] A dental crest CUESTA (8) [noun] A hill or ridge with a gentle slope on one side, and a steep slope on the other. CUPOLA (10) [noun] A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome. | [noun] A small turret, usually on a hatch of an armoured fighting vehicle. | [noun] An upward-projecting mass of plutonic rock extending from a larger batholith. CUPULA (10) [noun] A small dome-shaped anatomical structure, such as the cupula of the cochlea in the inner ear. | [noun] A cup-shaped structure or cavity in plants or animals. CURARA (8) DAGOBA (10) DAHLIA (10) [noun] Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico. DATCHA (12) [noun] A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside. DATURA (7) [noun] A plant of the genus Datura, known for its trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous properties. DEFLEA (10) DHARMA (12) [noun] The natural order of the universe; natural law, cosmic order. | [noun] One's obligation in respect to one's position in society, one's duty. | [noun] The teachings of the Buddha as one's personal path to enlightenment. DHARNA (10) [noun] A nonviolent sit-in protest. | [noun] (specifically) A fast undertaken at the door of an offender, especially a debtor. DHOORA (10) DHURNA (10) DUENNA (7) [noun] A chaperon of a young lady, usually an older woman. | [noun] A governess or nanny. ECZEMA (19) [noun] A non-contagious acute or chronic inflammation of the skin, characterized by redness, itching, and the outbreak of oozing vesicular lesions which become encrusted and scaly. EGESTA (7) [noun] The waste which is carried out from a cell or an organism; the result of egestion; excrement EIDOLA (7) [noun] An image or representation of an idea; a representation of an ideal form; an apparition of some actual or imaginary entity, or of some aspect of reality. | [noun] A phantom, a ghost or elusive entity. EJECTA (15) [noun] Material which has been ejected, especially from a volcano or an impact crater. ELODEA (7) [noun] Any of several underwater freshwater perennials, of the genus Elodea, that have grasslike leaves; ditchmoss or pondweed. ELUVIA (9) ELYTRA (9) [noun] A sheath or outer covering, especially around the spinal cord or over the hindwings of certain insects. ENCINA (8) ENIGMA (9) [noun] Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable. | [noun] A riddle, or a difficult problem. ENTERA (6) EPIZOA (17) [noun] An external animal parasite. ERRATA (6) [noun] An added page in a printed work where errors which are discovered after printing and their corrections (corrigenda) are listed. | [noun] An error, especially one in a printed work. EUPNEA (8) EUREKA (10) [noun] An alloy of copper and nickel whose resistivity is constant over a wide temperature range | [interjection] An exclamation indicating sudden discovery. EXACTA (15) [noun] A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick the two runners who finish first and second, in the correct order. EXEDRA (14) [noun] A semicircular recess, with stone benches, used as a place for discussion. | [noun] (by extension) A curved bench with a high back. EXUVIA (16) FACULA (11) [noun] A bright spot or patch between sunspots FAJITA (16) [noun] A Tex-Mex dish of strips of spicy marinated meat and/or vegetables in a soft flour tortilla, often served with salad or a savoury filling. FANEGA (10) FARINA (9) [noun] A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery. FASCIA (11) [noun] A wide band of material covering the ends of roof rafters, sometimes supporting a gutter in steep-slope roofing, but typically it is a border or trim in low-slope roofing. | [noun] A face or front cover of an appliance, especially of a mobile phone. | [noun] A dashboard. FAVELA (12) [noun] A slum or shantytown, especially in Brazil FECULA (11) FEDORA (10) [noun] A felt hat with a fairly low, creased crown with a brim that can be turned up or down. FEIJOA (16) [noun] A South American evergreen shrub, Acca sellowiana (syn. Feijoa sellowiana). | [noun] The green, ellipsoid fruit of this shrub, having a tart and sweet taste. FEMORA (11) [noun] A thighbone. | [noun] The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia. | [noun] A segment of the leg of an arachnid. FERULA (9) [noun] A ferule. | [noun] A stroke from a cane. | [noun] The imperial sceptre in the Byzantine Empire. FIBULA (11) [noun] An ancient kind of brooch used to hold clothing together, similar in function to the modern safety pin. | [noun] The smaller of the two bones in the lower leg, the calf bone. FIESTA (9) [noun] (In Spanish speaking countries) A religious festival. | [noun] A festive occasion. FRAENA (9) FRUSTA (9) [noun] A cone or pyramid whose tip has been truncated by a plane parallel to its base. | [noun] A portion of a sphere, or in general any solid, delimited by two parallel planes. FULCRA (11) [noun] The support about which a lever pivots. | [noun] A crux or pivot; a central point. FUNKIA (13) [noun] Any of the plants of the genus Funkia (now Hosta). GALENA (7) [noun] A mineral, lead sulphide (PbS), mined as an ore for lead. | [noun] A remedy or antidote for poison; theriac. GAMBIA (11) GEISHA (10) [noun] A Japanese female entertainer skilled in various arts such as tea ceremony, dancing, singing and calligraphy. GELADA (8) [noun] A species of Old World monkey, Theropithecus gelada, distinguished from baboons by the bright patch of skin on their chests. GENERA (7) [noun] A rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank. | [noun] A group with common attributes. | [noun] A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph. GENEVA (10) GLIOMA (9) [noun] A tumour that arises from glial cells in the brain or spinal cord GLORIA (7) [noun] A lightweight fabric used for umbrellas and dresses. | [noun] A doxology. GLOSSA (7) GOANNA (7) [noun] Any of various monitor lizards native to Australia. GRAPPA (11) [noun] An Italian grape-based spirit of between 80 and 100 proof, made from the distillation of pomace. | [noun] A variety or serving of grappa. GUINEA (7) [noun] A person of Italian descent. | [noun] A gold coin originally worth twenty shillings; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings. | [noun] Any of several African birds of the family Numididae (6 species) resembling partridges. HALALA (9) [noun] A wedlease (temporary marriage) to a stranger undertaken prior to remarriage to an ex, that is to make the remarriage halal, or the woman halala (f) to marry. | [noun] A monetary unit of Saudi Arabia equal to one hundredth of a riyal. HALLOA (9) HAMADA (12) HANIWA (12) HEGIRA (10) [noun] A journey taken to escape from danger; an exodus. HEJIRA (16) [noun] A journey taken to escape from danger; an exodus. HERNIA (9) [noun] A disorder in which a part of the body protrudes abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part, especially of the abdomen. HILLOA (9) HOLLOA (9) HOOPLA (11) [noun] A bustling to-do, excited speech or noise. | [noun] A carnival game in which the player attempts to throw hoops around pegs. HULLOA (9) HUTZPA (20) [noun] Nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion. HYAENA (12) [noun] Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the subfamily Hyaeninae (genera Hyaena and Crocuta), native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited. | [noun] (Sub-Saharan Africa) A man that performs ritualized sex acts with recently widowed women and menarchal girls. HYDRIA (13) [noun] A three-handled clay or metal vessel used in Greek culture to hold and pour water. IGUANA (7) [noun] A green iguana (Iguana iguana), a large tropical American lizard often kept as a pet | [noun] In zoology, any member of the genus Iguana | [noun] Colloquially, in America and the Pacific, any of several members of the lizard family Iguanidae. IMPALA (10) [noun] An African antelope, Aepyceros melampus, noted for its leaping ability; the male has ridged, curved horns. INDABA (9) [noun] A tribal conference held by Nguni leaders. | [noun] A problem, a concern. | [noun] An international conference of Scout leaders. INTIMA (8) [noun] The innermost part of an anatomical structure, particularly a tubular one ISCHIA (11) [noun] The lowest of the three bones that make up each side of the pelvis. JACANA (15) [noun] Any of a group of wading birds in the family Jacanidae, usually having long toes and claws, and found throughout the world. JARINA (13) JEJUNA (20) [noun] The central of the three divisions of the small intestine which lies between the duodenum and the ileum JERBOA (15) [noun] Any of a number of species comprising most of the family Dipodidae, native to the deserts of Asia and northern Africa, being a small, jumping rodent with a long tufted tail, very small forefeet and very long hind legs. JICAMA (17) [noun] The edible root of the yam bean, Pachyrhizus erosus, used in salads in Central America. JOJOBA (22) [noun] A shrub native to the southwestern United States and to Mexico, Simmondsia chinensis: the only plant known to store liquid wax in its seed. JUDOKA (18) [noun] A practitioner of the Japanese martial art of judo. JUGULA (14) KABAKA (16) [noun] The title of the king of Buganda. KABALA (12) KABAYA (15) KAHUNA (13) [noun] A priest or priestess of the traditional Hawaiian religion. | [noun] A great surfer. KALMIA (12) [noun] Any plant in the taxonomic genus Kalmia. KAMALA (12) KERRIA (10) [noun] Kerria japonica, the sole species in the genus Kerria, a deciduous shrub with five-petalled yellow flowers. KINEMA (12) KISHKA (17) KORUNA (10) [noun] The currency of the former Czechoslovakia, divided into 100 hellers. | [noun] The currency of the Czech Republic, divided into 100 hellers. | [noun] The former currency of Slovakia, divided into 100 haliers. KWACHA (18) [noun] Malawi's major currency unit; 100 tambala = 1 kwacha. | [noun] Zambia's major currency unit; 100 ngwee = 1 kwacha. KWANZA (22) [noun] The currency of Angola, divided into a hundred cêntimos. LABARA (8) LACUNA (8) [noun] A small opening; a small pit or depression. | [noun] A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus. | [noun] An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar. LAGUNA (7) LAMBDA (11) [noun] The eleventh letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabet, the twelfth of the Old Greek alphabet. | [noun] Unit representation of wavelength. | [noun] The cosmological constant. LAMINA (8) [noun] A very thin layer of material. | [noun] A thin plate or scale, such as the arch of a vertebra. | [noun] The flat part of a leaf or leaflet; the blade. LATRIA (6) [noun] The highest form of worship, named adoration, properly given to the triune God alone LEXICA (15) LIGULA (7) [noun] A strap or strap-shaped object, especially such a development in plants or insects. LIKUTA (10) [noun] A former unit of currency, one hundredth of a zaïre. LIMINA (8) [noun] A liminal point; the threshold of a physiological or psychological response. LINGUA (7) LIPOMA (10) [noun] A nonmalignant tumor comprising fat cells. LITHIA (9) [noun] Lithium oxide, Li2O, used in the manufacture of ceramics and glass. LOCHIA (11) [noun] Normal post-partum vaginal discharge; blood, mucus, and placental tissue that are discharged from a female's vagina (similar to menstruation) for several weeks after she has given birth. LOGGIA (8) [noun] A roofed, open gallery, usually on an upper level. LORICA (8) [noun] A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like. | [noun] Lute for protecting vessels from the fire. | [noun] The protective case or shell of a Loricifera, infusorian or rotifer LUMINA (8) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous flux; the light that is emitted in a solid angle of one steradian from a source of one candela. Symbol: lm. | [noun] The cavity or channel within a tube or tubular organ. | [noun] The cavity bounded by a plant cell wall. LUNULA (6) [noun] Something shaped like a crescent or half-moon; especially the pale area at the base of the fingernail. LUSTRA (6) [noun] A ceremonial purification of all the people, performed every five years after the taking of the census; a lustration. | [noun] (by extension) A period of five years. MACULA (10) [noun] An oval yellow spot near the center of the retina of the human eye, histologically defined as having two or more layers of ganglion cells, responsible for detailed central vision. | [noun] A small chamber of the inner ear of certain vertebrates filled with endolymph and containing an otolith. | [noun] A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb. MAFFIA (14) MAKUTA (12) [noun] A former unit of currency, one hundredth of a zaïre. MALTHA (11) MANANA (8) [adverb] Tomorrow. | [adverb] Sometime in the future. Usually to say in a satirical sense 'sometime in the unspecified future, despite the fact that we were told tomorrow without fail'. MANILA (8) [noun] Fiber made from abaca (Manila hemp), used to make ropes and manila paper. | [noun] The yellow-brown colour of manila. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to Manila, the capital of the Philippines; made in, or exported from, that city. MANTRA (8) [noun] The hymn portions of the Vedas; any passage of these used as a prayer. | [noun] (originally Hinduism) A phrase repeated to assist concentration during meditation. | [noun] (by extension) A slogan or phrase often repeated. MANTUA (8) [noun] An article of loose clothing popular in 17th- and 18th century France. | [noun] A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy. | [noun] A woman's cloak or mantle. MARACA (10) [noun] A Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a hollow-gourd rattle containing pebbles or beans and often played in pairs, as a rhythm instrument. | [noun] (in the plural) breasts MARINA (8) [noun] A harbour for small boats. MARKKA (16) [noun] A (Finnish) mark, the currency used in Finland before the introduction of the euro, consisting of 100 penni. Abbreviation FIM. MAXIMA (17) [noun] A music note equal to two (or sometimes three) longæ; in modern notation, this is typically equivalent to eight semibreves. | [noun] The highest limit | [noun] The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function MAZUMA (19) [noun] Cash, money. MEDAKA (13) [noun] Oryzias latipes, a small Japanese ricefish, popular for use in aquariums. MEDINA (9) [noun] The traditional, older or non-European area of a North African town. MEDUSA (9) [noun] A jellyfish; specifically , a non-polyp form of individual cnidarians, consisting of a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles. METEPA (10) MEZUZA (26) [noun] A piece of parchment inscribed with specific Hebrew verses from the Torah (Deuteronomy 6:4–9 and 11:13–21) and attached in a case to the doorpost of a house, in accordance with the mitzvah (Biblical commandment as interpreted in Jewish law) to "write the words of God on the gates and doorposts of your house" (Deuteronomy 6:9). MIASMA (10) [noun] A noxious atmosphere or influence. | [noun] A noxious atmosphere or emanation once thought to originate from swamps and waste, and to cause disease. MIMOSA (10) [noun] A plant belonging to the genus Mimosa usually found in tropical climates, their leaves are usually prickly and sensitive to touch or light, and have small white or pink flowers. | [noun] Albizia species (silk tree, pink siris). | [noun] Acacia species. MINIMA (10) [noun] The lowest limit. | [noun] The smallest amount. | [noun] A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star). MODICA (11) MORULA (8) [noun] A spherical mass of blastomeres that forms following the splitting of a zygote; it becomes the blastula MUCOSA (10) [noun] Mucous membrane MULETA (8) [noun] A red flag used by bullfighters. MURRHA (11) MYOPIA (13) [noun] A disorder of the vision where distant objects appear blurred because the eye focuses their images in front of the retina instead of on it. | [noun] A lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning. MYRICA (13) MYXOMA (20) [noun] A tumor of primitive connective tissue. NAGANA (7) [noun] A disease of vertebrates in southern Africa, characterised by swelling and lethargy and caused by trypanosomes transmitted by tsetse flies. NAUSEA (6) [noun] A feeling of illness or discomfort in the digestive system, usually characterized by a strong urge to vomit. | [noun] Strong dislike or disgust. | [noun] Motion sickness. NEBULA (8) [noun] A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes). | [noun] A white spot or slight opacity of the cornea. | [noun] A cloudy appearance in the urine NOMINA (8) NOVENA (9) [noun] A recitation of prayers and devotions for nine consecutive days, especially one to a saint to ask for their intercession. NUMINA (8) [noun] A divinity, especially a local or presiding god. | [noun] An influence or phenomenon at once mystical and transcendant. NUTRIA (6) [noun] The coypu, Myocastor coypus. | [noun] The fur of the coypu. NYMPHA (16) OBELIA (8) [noun] Any of various colonial marine hydroids of the genus Obelia. OCHREA (11) [noun] A greave or legging. | [noun] A sheath around a plant stem forming from the stipule of a leaf and extending above the point of insertion of the leaf. OEDEMA (9) [noun] An excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity | [noun] A similar swelling in plants caused by excessive accumulation of water OMENTA (8) [noun] Either of two folds of the peritoneum that support the viscera. OPTIMA (10) [noun] The best or most favorable condition, or the greatest amount or degree possible under specific sets of comparable circumstances. ORGANA (7) [noun] A type of medieval polyphony which builds upon an existing plainsong. | [noun] A method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted. OSCULA (8) [noun] A small opening or orifice. | [noun] One of the suckers on the head of a tapeworm. | [noun] The main opening in a sponge from which water is expelled. OTTAVA (9) PAELLA (8) [noun] A savory Valencian dish made of rice, cooked on a frying pan with vegetables and meat or shellfish. PAGODA (10) [noun] A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple. | [noun] (usually in form pagod) An image or carving of a god in South and Southeast Asia; an idol. | [noun] A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties in medieval southern India. PAJAMA (17) [noun] A pair of pajamas. | [noun] Clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in, usually consisting of a loose-fitting shirt and pants/trousers. | [noun] Loose-fitting trousers worn by both sexes in various southern Asian countries including India. PAKEHA (15) [noun] A non-Maori, especially a European New Zealander. PALLIA (8) [noun] A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers. | [noun] A woolen liturgical vestment resembling a collar and worn over the chasuble in the Western Christian liturgical tradition, conferred on archbishops by the Pope, equivalent to the Eastern Christian omophorion. | [noun] The mantle of a mollusc. PANADA (9) [noun] A thick paste made by mixing breadcrumbs, flour, etc. with water, milk, stock, butter or sometimes egg yolks | [noun] Any of several soups made using this paste PANAMA (10) PAPAYA (13) [noun] A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit | [noun] The fruit of this tree. | [noun] An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh. PAPULA (10) [noun] A pimple; a small, usually conical, elevation of the cuticle, produced by congestion, accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy of tissue; a papule. | [noun] One of the numerous small hollow processes of the integument between the plates of starfishes. PARURA (8) PATACA (10) [noun] The monetary unit of Macau, equal to 100 avos. | [noun] A monetary unit used during the 16th century and 17th century in Malta in the form of a large copper coin. | [noun] A monetary unit of account used in Portuguese Timor intermittently between 1894 and 1958. PATINA (8) [noun] A paten, flat type of dish | [noun] The colour or incrustation which age and wear give to (mainly metallic) objects; especially, the green rust which covers works of art such as ancient bronzes, coins and medals. | [noun] A green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina. PAYOLA (11) [noun] A bribe given in exchange for a favor, such as one given in exchange for the promotion of goods or services (originally one given to a disk jockey to play a record). PELOTA (8) [noun] Any of a variety of Spanish sports played against a wall. PENNIA (8) PEREIA (8) PESETA (8) [noun] The former currency of the Spanish Empire and Andorra, divided into 100 céntimos. PESEWA (11) [noun] In the currency of Ghana, one hundredth of a cedi. PHOBIA (13) [noun] An irrational, abnormal, or obsessive fear (of something). PIAZZA (26) [noun] A public square, especially in Italian cities. | [noun] A veranda; a porch. | [noun] A roofed gallery or arcade (for example around a public square or in front of a building). PICARA (10) PINATA (8) [noun] (Latin American culture) A doll or other decorated container that is filled with candy and hit with a hammer or a stick by blindfolded children during birthday parties or other celebrations until the candy falls out. | [verb] To hit something or someone with sticks after having filled them with candy. PINETA (8) [noun] An arboretum, or part of an arboretum or garden, devoted to growing conifers PIRANA (8) PIRAYA (11) PLASMA (10) [noun] A state of matter consisting of partially ionized gas and electrons | [noun] A clear component of blood or lymph containing fibrin | [noun] Blood plasma, free of suspended cells, used in transfusions PLEURA (8) [noun] The smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane. | [noun] A lateral sclerite of a thoracic segment of an arthropod between the tergum and the sternum. PNEUMA (10) [noun] A neume. | [noun] The spirit or soul. | [noun] One of three levels of a human being, the spirit, along with the body and soul. POISHA (11) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a rupee in various Asian countries. | [noun] (British India) A subdivision of currency equivalent to 1/64 of a rupee or three pies. | [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Bangladeshi taka. POSADA (9) [noun] A traditional Mexican Christmas procession. | [noun] An inn in Spanish-speaking regions. PROTEA (8) [noun] Any of many South African flowering plants, of the genus Protea, having colourful cone-shaped flower heads. PSYLLA (11) [noun] Any leaping plant louse of the genus Psylla, or family Psyllidae. PURANA (8) PYEMIA (13) [noun] A type of septicemia caused usually by the presence of Staphylococcus bacteria in the bloodstream; characterised by metastatic abscesses and other symptoms associated with septicemia. PYROLA (11) PYURIA (11) [noun] The presence of pus in the urine. QUAGGA (17) [noun] A southern-African subspecies of zebra, Equus quagga quagga, which went extinct in 1883. The upper parts of the animal were reddish brown, becoming paler behind and beneath, while the face, neck, and fore part of the body were marked by dark stripes. QUALIA (15) [noun] An instance of subjective, conscious experience. QUANTA (15) [noun] The total amount of something; quantity. | [noun] The amount or quantity observably present, or available. | [noun] The smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon. QUINOA (15) [noun] A goosefoot (Chenopodium quinoa) native to the Andes and cultivated for its edible seeds. | [noun] The high-protein dried fruits and seeds of this plant, used as a food staple and ground into flour. QUINTA (15) [noun] A country house in Madeira. QUOKKA (23) [noun] A cat-sized marsupial, Setonix brachyurus, of southwestern Australia. QUOTHA (18) RADULA (7) [noun] The rasping tongue of snails and all other mollusks except bivalves. RAFFIA (12) [noun] A fibrous material used for tying plants, originating from the leaves of the raffia palm tree (genus Raphia). RANULA (6) RAPHIA (11) REALIA (6) [noun] Objects from real life or from the real world, as opposed to theoretical constructs or fabricated examples. REDOWA (10) REGINA (7) REMORA (8) [noun] Any of various elongate fish from the family Echeneidae, the dorsal fin of which is in the form of a suction disc that can take a firm hold against the skin of larger marine animals. | [noun] A serpent. | [noun] A delay; a hindrance, an obstacle. REMUDA (9) [noun] A herd of horses from which the horses to be used for a particular purpose are selected. RESEDA (7) [noun] Any of various plants of the genus Reseda having small, pale grayish green flowers, such as dyer's rocket (Reseda luteola) and mignonette (Reseda odorata). | [noun] (specifically) Mignonette (Reseda odorata). | [noun] A pale greyish-green colour like the flowers of a reseda plant; mignonette. RETINA (6) [noun] The thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball where light is converted into neural signals sent to the brain. RHUMBA (13) [noun] A slow-paced Cuban partner dance in 4:4 time. | [verb] To dance the rumba ROSTRA (6) [noun] A dais, pulpit, or similar platform for a speaker, conductor, or other performer. | [noun] A platform for a film or television camera. | [noun] The projecting prow of a rowed warship, such as a trireme. RUGOLA (7) RUGOSA (7) [noun] A plant of the rose species Rosa rugosa, or of any hybrid developed from it. RUMINA (8) [noun] The first compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminants. SALINA (6) [noun] A salt marsh, or salt pond, enclosed from the sea. SALIVA (9) [noun] A clear, slightly alkaline liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands, consisting of water, mucin, protein, and enzymes. It moistens the mouth, lubricates ingested food, and begins the breakdown of starches. SALVIA (9) [noun] A plant in the genus Salvia, such as sage. SAMARA (8) [noun] The winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple SAMOSA (8) [noun] A snack, of Indian origin, consisting of a deep-fried triangular turnover filled with vegetables (especially potatoes) or meat. SANCTA (8) SAPOTA (8) SATARA (6) SCHEMA (13) [noun] An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a body schema). | [noun] A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of the columns of each table, and the data type and other attributes of each column. | [noun] (markup languages) A formal description of data, data types, and data file structures, such as XML schemas for XML files. SCILLA (8) [noun] A plant of the genus Scilla; a squill. | [noun] A bulb of Urginea scilla. SCLERA (8) [noun] The white of the eye. It is the tough outer coat of the eye that covers the eyeball except for the cornea. SCORIA (8) [noun] The slag or dross that remains after the smelting of metal from an ore. | [noun] Rough masses of rock formed by solidified lava, and which can be found around a volcano's crater. SCOTIA (8) [noun] A concave molding with a lower edge projecting beyond the top. SCROTA (8) [noun] The bag of skin and muscle that contains the testicles in mammals. SEMINA (8) SENECA (8) SENEGA (7) SENORA (6) [noun] A Spanish term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married, divorced or widowed woman SEROSA (6) [noun] A membrane which lines an internal cavity to protect the contents and which secretes serum. SHEILA (9) [noun] A woman. | [noun] A shayla, a headscarf worn by Muslim women. SHELTA (9) SHERPA (11) [noun] A mountain guide or porter, particularly a male of the Sherpa people so employed. | [noun] An expert sent by a country’s leader to a summit meeting. | [noun] A synthetic fabric with a long, thick pile, similar to faux fur, imitation lamb wool or fleece. SHIKSA (13) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A non-Jewish girl, especially one who is attractive and young. SIENNA (6) [noun] A form of clay containing iron and manganese. | [noun] A pigment with a reddish-brown colour. | [noun] A light reddish-brown colour. SIERRA (6) [noun] A rugged range of mountains. | [noun] The letter S in the ICAO spelling alphabet. | [noun] A scombroid fish. SIESTA (6) [noun] A nap, especially an afternoon one taken after lunch in some cultures. | [verb] To take a siesta; to nap. SIFAKA (13) [noun] A medium-sized lemur of the genus Propithecus. SILICA (8) [noun] Silicon dioxide. | [noun] Any of the silica group of the silicate minerals. SISTRA (6) [noun] An ancient Egyptian musical instrument, to be shaken, consisting of a metal frame holding percussive metal beads. SMEGMA (11) [noun] A whitish sebaceous secretion that collects between the glans penis and foreskin or in the vulva. SOMATA (8) SONATA (6) [noun] A musical composition for one or a few instruments, one of which is frequently a piano, in three or four movements that vary in key and tempo. SPIREA (8) [noun] Any of many flowering shrubs, of the genus Spiraea, that have clusters of white or pink flowers | [noun] The Astilbe. SQUAMA (17) SRADHA (10) STADIA (7) [noun] A level staff or graduated rod used by surveyors to measure differences in level, or to measure horizontal distances by sighting the stadia hairs (graduations) through a telescope. | [noun] (historically) A graduated brass triangle used to measure the distance of a target by comparison of the graduations with the heights of soldiers or horses. | [noun] A Greek unit of measurement, equivalent to six plethra or six hundred podes, which, though varying in precise length, is generally accepted to be equivalent to approximately 185·4 metres. STANZA (15) [noun] A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse. | [noun] An apartment or division in a building. | [noun] An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP. STELLA (6) STEMMA (10) [noun] A family tree or recorded genealogy | [noun] In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts | [noun] One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods STERNA (6) [noun] The breastbone | [noun] The sclerotized plate of spiders, between the coxae, marking the floor of the cephalothorax STIGMA (9) [noun] A mark of infamy or disgrace. | [noun] A scar or birthmark. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural stigmata) A mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion on Jesus' body, and sometimes reported to bleed periodically. | [noun] A ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau, (Ϛ/ϛ). STRATA (6) [noun] One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another. | [noun] A layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout. | [noun] Any of the regions of the atmosphere, such as the stratosphere, that occur as layers. | [noun] Condominium unit, condominium building, condominium title STROMA (8) [noun] The tissue structure of an organ, etc., that serves to support it. STRUMA (8) [noun] Scrofula. | [noun] A scrofulous swelling; a tumour or goitre. SUBSEA (8) [adjective] Beneath the sea; submarine. SULPHA (11) [noun] A sulphanilamide. | [adjective] Of or containing sulphanilamide. SYNURA (9) TAENIA (6) [noun] A ribbon worn in the hair in ancient Greece. | [noun] (Doric architecture) A band between the frieze and architrave in the Doric order. | [noun] Any of several ribbon-like bands of tissue. TAFFIA (12) TALUKA (10) [noun] A hereditary estate in parts of India; subsequently, an administrative subdivision of a district. TANTRA (6) [noun] A Hindu or Buddhist religious or esoteric text. TAPETA (8) TARAMA (8) [noun] Salted cured cod roe, used in making taramosalata TARSIA (6) TELEGA (7) TEPHRA (11) [noun] The solid material thrown into the air by a volcanic eruption that settles on the surrounding areas. TERBIA (8) THORIA (9) [noun] The rare earth, thorium oxide. THULIA (9) TORULA (6) [noun] Any of a group of fungi, Candida utilis, related to the yeasts, sometimes used in processed food. | [noun] A small torus. TRAUMA (8) [noun] Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident. | [noun] An emotional wound leading to psychological injury. | [noun] An event that causes great distress. TRIVIA (9) [noun] Insignificant trifles of little importance, especially items of unimportant information | [noun] A quiz game that involves obscure facts. | [noun] (in medieval universities) The lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric. TROIKA (10) [noun] A Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast. | [noun] A party or group of three, especially a ruling council of three people in Russian contexts. TUNDRA (7) [noun] A flat and treeless Arctic biome. TUNICA (8) ULTIMA (8) UNGULA (7) URANIA (6) UREDIA (7) UREMIA (8) [noun] Blood poisoning resulting from the retention of waste products usually excreted as urine. UTOPIA (8) [noun] A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony. VAGINA (10) [noun] The passage leading from the opening of the vulva to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and childbirth in female mammals. | [noun] A similar part in some invertebrates. | [noun] A sheath-like structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem. VALUTA (9) [noun] A foreign currency; any monetary standard. VESICA (11) VICUNA (11) [noun] A South American mammal, Vicugna vicugna, closely related to the alpaca, llama, and guanaco. VIMINA (11) VIZSLA (18) [noun] A dog breed originating in Hungary. VOMICA (13) WOMERA (11) YANTRA (9) [noun] A geometrical diagram used as a meditation aid in tantric worship. | [noun] Any object used as a meditation aid in tantric worship. | [noun] An equipment, instrument, machine or device. YAUTIA (9) [noun] An edible plant commonly found in the Caribbean: Xanthosoma sagittifolium, new cocoyam. YTTRIA (9) ZANANA (15) ZAREBA (17) [noun] A fence of the type once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes. | [noun] (by extension) An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed. | [noun] (by extension) A camp of troops employing such an enclosure. ZARIBA (17) [noun] A fence of the type once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes. | [noun] (by extension) An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed. | [noun] (by extension) A camp of troops employing such an enclosure. ZENANA (15) [noun] A harem on the Indian subcontinent; a part of the house reserved for high-caste women; a system of segregating women into harems. | [noun] An effeminate or crossdressing male in northern India or Pakistan. (Also spelled zanána.) ZEUGMA (18) [noun] The act of using a word, particularly an adjective or verb, to apply to more than one noun when its sense is appropriate to only one. | [noun] Syllepsis. ZINNIA (15) [noun] Any of several brightly coloured flowering plants, of the genus Zinnia, native to tropical America; old maid ZOARIA (15) ZOECIA (17) ZONULA (15) ZOYSIA (18) ZYGOMA (21) [noun] The cheekbone.

ABOMASA (11) [noun] The fourth or digestive compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminant, after the omasum. ABOULIA (9) [noun] Absence of willpower or decisiveness, especially as a symptom of mental illness. ABROSIA (9) ACAPNIA (11) [noun] A deficiency of carbon dioxide in the blood, typically resulting from hyperventilation. ACCIDIA (12) [noun] Spiritual sloth or apathy, especially as one of the seven deadly sins; a state of listlessness and dissatisfaction. ACEQUIA (18) [noun] An irrigation ditch or canal, especially one used in the southwestern United States and Spanish-speaking regions. ACEROLA (9) [noun] A tropical fruit-bearing shrub native to Central and South America, valued for its exceptionally high vitamin C content. | [noun] The tart red fruit of this plant, often used in juices and supplements. ACHOLIA (12) [noun] A medical condition characterized by the absence or deficiency of bile secretion. ACICULA (11) [noun] A slender, needle-like structure or bristle found in plants or animals. | [noun] In botany, a small needle-like leaf or spine. ACRASIA (9) [noun] Lack of self-control; excess; intemperance ACROMIA (11) ACTINIA (9) [noun] A sea anemone, especially of the genus Actinia. | [noun] The disk-like structure at the base of a sea anemone. ADDENDA (10) [noun] Something to be added; especially text added as an appendix or supplement to a document. | [noun] A postscript. | [noun] The height by which the tooth of a gear projects beyond (outside for external, or inside for internal) the standard pitch circle or pitch line. ADENOMA (10) [noun] A benign tumour of the epithelium arising from or resembling a gland. AECIDIA (10) [noun] Plural of aecium; cup-shaped structures in rust fungi that produce spores. AEROBIA (9) [noun] Plural of aerobium; organisms that require oxygen to survive. AGNOSIA (8) [noun] The inability to recognize objects by use of the senses. AGRAPHA (13) [noun] Sayings of Jesus not recorded in the canonical Gospels, or passages of Scripture whose source is unknown or disputed. ALAMEDA (10) [noun] A tree-lined avenue in Spain or Portugal. ALBIZIA (18) [noun] A plant of the genus Albizia; a siris or silk tree. ALFALFA (13) [noun] A plant, principally of Medicago sativa, grown as a pasture crop. | [noun] A type or breed of this plant. ALFORJA (17) ALGEBRA (10) [noun] A system for computation using letters or other symbols to represent numbers, with rules for manipulating these symbols. | [noun] The surgical treatment of a dislocated or fractured bone. Also : a dislocation or fracture. | [noun] The study of algebraic structures. ALLODIA (8) [noun] Freehold land or property ALLUVIA (10) ALTHAEA (10) ALUMINA (9) [noun] Aluminum oxide, especially when used in mining, material sciences or ceramics. AMANITA (9) AMBOINA (11) AMBOYNA (14) [noun] A south-east Asian tree, Pterocarpus indicus. | [noun] The reddish, mottled or striped wood of this tree, used in cabinet-making. AMENTIA (9) [noun] Mental impairment; state of being mentally handicapped. AMMONIA (11) [noun] A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste. | [noun] A solution of this compound in water used domestically as a cleaning fluid. AMNESIA (9) [noun] Loss of memory; forgetfulness. | [noun] Forgetfulness. AMPHORA (14) [noun] A two-handled jar with a narrow neck that was used in ancient times to store or carry wine or oil. | [noun] One of various units for measuring liquid or volume during the Roman Empire, measuring between 18.5 and 39 litres depending on the variant. | [noun] Ancient unit of volume, for the measurement of the internal capacity of a ship. AMPULLA (11) [noun] An Ancient Roman two-handled vessel. | [noun] A vessel for containing consecrated wine or oil. | [noun] The dilated end of a duct. AMREETA (9) ANAEMIA (9) [noun] A medical condition in which the capacity of the blood to transport oxygen to the tissues is reduced, either because of too few red blood cells, or because of too little hemoglobin, resulting in pallor and fatigue. | [noun] A disease or condition that has anemia as a symptom. | [noun] (obsolete) Ischemia. ANALGIA (8) [noun] Loss of the sense of pain while retaining consciousness. ANCHUSA (12) [noun] Any plant of the genus Anchusa (within family Boraginaceae) of rough and hairy Old World herbs with one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers. ANCILLA (9) [noun] A maidservant or female slave in ancient Rome. | [noun] Something that is subordinate or subsidiary to something else. ANERGIA (8) [noun] Dilute or disorganized energy, which cannot be transformed into work. | [noun] Deficiency of energy. | [noun] Lack of immunity to an antigen. ANGARIA (8) [noun] The compulsory requisitioning of private property or services by a government, especially for military purposes. | [noun] In historical contexts, forced labor or service imposed on subjects or conquered peoples. ANGIOMA (10) [noun] A benign tumor made up of small blood vessels or lymph vessels. ANHINGA (11) [noun] A fish-eating bird (Anhinga anhinga) of North America with a thin, pointed bill and a long, thin neck. | [noun] One who darts, or who throws darts; that which darts. | [noun] Any member of the family Anhingidae, waterbirds with long necks. ANOPSIA (9) [noun] A visual defect involving loss of vision in part of the visual field. ANOSMIA (9) [noun] Inability to smell; the inability to perceive odors. ANTENNA (7) [noun] A feeler organ on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal. | [noun] An apparatus to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal. | [noun] The faculty of intuitive astuteness. APHAGIA (13) [noun] Loss of the ability to swallow, typically due to disease or injury of the esophagus or throat muscles. APHASIA (12) [noun] A partial or total loss of language skills due to brain damage. Usually, damage to the left perisylvian region, including Broca's area and Wernicke's area, causes aphasia. APHELIA (12) [noun] The point in the elliptical orbit of a planet, comet, etc., where it is farthest from the Sun. APHONIA (12) [noun] Loss of voice; the inability to speak. APLASIA (9) [noun] A condition marked by the incomplete development, or entire absence, of an organ or tissue. APRAXIA (16) [noun] Total or partial loss of the ability to perform coordinated movements or manipulate objects in the absence of motor or sensory impairment; specifically, a disorder of motor planning. APTERIA (9) [noun] Featherless areas of skin on a bird's body between the feather tracts. | [noun] Plural of apteron, spaces on an ancient Greek building between the ends of the side walls and the corners of the front and back porches. AQUARIA (16) [noun] A tank, often made of glass, for keeping live fish or other aquatic animals. | [noun] A public place where live fish and other aquatic animals are exhibited. ARABICA (11) [noun] A species of coffee plant, Coffea arabica, native to Ethiopia | [noun] The bean of this plant | [noun] Coffee made from these coffee beans ARAROBA (9) [noun] A Brazilian tree that produces a powder used as a remedy for skin diseases, particularly ringworm. ARCADIA (10) [noun] A region in ancient Greece, traditionally associated with pastoral simplicity and contentment. | [noun] Any idealized pastoral landscape or setting that represents an idyllic, rustic paradise. ARIETTA (7) [noun] A short, simple melody or tune, especially one sung by a single voice in an opera or vocal composition. ARMILLA (9) [noun] A bracelet or armlet, especially one worn as an ornament or badge of rank in ancient times. | [noun] In astronomy, an instrument consisting of rings used to measure celestial coordinates. ARUGOLA (8) [noun] A leafy green vegetable with a peppery flavor, commonly used in salads. ARUGULA (8) [noun] One of three yellowish-flowered Mediterranean herbs of the mustard family with flavoured leaves, often eaten in salads. Has a distinct, peppery flavor: ASCIDIA (10) [noun] A barrel-shaped marine animal that is a member of the tunicate group, typically found attached to rocks or seaweed in ocean waters. ASTASIA (7) [noun] Loss of the ability to stand or walk, despite having normal muscle function; a neurological condition characterized by inability to maintain an upright posture. ASTERIA (7) ATALAYA (10) [noun] A watchtower or lookout point, especially one used in Spanish-speaking regions for surveillance or observation. ATEMOYA (12) [noun] A tropical fruit that is a hybrid between a sugar apple and a cherimoya, having a bumpy exterior and creamy white flesh. ATRESIA (7) [noun] A condition in which a body orifice or passage in the body is abnormally closed or absent. AUREOLA (7) [noun] Radiance of luminous cloud that surrounds the figure in a painting of a sacred personage. BABESIA (11) [noun] A parasitic protozoan that infects red blood cells and is transmitted by ticks, causing babesiosis in humans and animals. BACCARA (13) [noun] A card game of chance played with a standard deck, where players bet on whether the banker or player will have a hand closest to nine. BAKLAVA (16) [noun] A popular sweet pastry found in many cuisines of the Middle East and the Balkans, made of chopped nuts layered with phyllo pastry. BAKLAWA (16) [noun] A Middle Eastern pastry made of phyllo dough layered with nuts and honey or syrup. BANDANA (10) [noun] A large kerchief, usually colourful and used either as headgear or as a handkerchief, neckerchief, bikini, or sweatband. | [noun] A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed a uniform red or dark colour, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure. BANDORA (10) [noun] A large plucked string instrument of the Renaissance period, similar to a lute but with a longer neck and more strings. BANKSIA (13) [noun] A plant belonging to the genus Banksia. BARILLA (9) [noun] Any of several unrelated saltmarsh plants that were once burnt to obtain soda ash. | [noun] The alkali produced from the plant, an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching. | [noun] Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp. BASIDIA (10) [noun] A small structure, shaped like a club, found in the Basidiomycota division of fungi, that bears four spores at the tips of small projections. BAZOOKA (22) [noun] A primitive trombone having wide tubes. | [noun] A shoulder-held rocket launcher used as an antitank weapon, developed by America during World War II and so-called from its resemblance to the bazooka musical instrument. | [noun] (by extension) Any shoulder-fired rocket grenade launcher. | [noun] Crack cocaine. BEGONIA (10) [noun] Any plant of the large genus of Begonia. BEGORRA (10) [interjection] An exclamation of surprise. BERETTA (9) BIDARKA (14) [noun] A kayak constructed by covering a light wooden frame (lashed together with sinew) in sea lion hides. BIENNIA (9) [noun] A period of two years. BIRETTA (9) [noun] A square cap, originally with four ridges across the top, surmounted by a tuft, worn by Roman Catholic clergy (and by some in the Anglican Church). A three-sided biretta is worn by Roman Catholic clergy for liturgical celebrations. BISNAGA (10) [noun] A clay or metal container used in India and other South Asian countries for holding water or other liquids, typically with a narrow neck and bulbous body. BIZNAGA (19) [noun] A Mexican plant of the agave family with edible roots, or a type of barrel cactus found in Mexico and the southwestern United States. BOFFOLA (15) [noun] A coarse or farcical gag; a joke provoking hearty laughter. BOHEMIA (14) [noun] A community of bohemians, unconventional artists or writers. BOLIVIA (12) BOLOGNA (10) [noun] A seasoned Italian sausage made from beef, pork or veal. | [noun] A type of sausage; bologna. BONANZA (18) [noun] A rich mine or vein of silver or gold. | [noun] The point at which two mother lodes intersect. | [noun] (by extension) Anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income or return. BOTHRIA (12) [noun] A longitudinal groove or furrow, especially one of the sucking grooves on the scolex (head) of a tapeworm. BRACHIA (14) [noun] Plural of brachium; the upper arm or a part resembling an arm, especially in anatomy or zoology. BRAVURA (12) [noun] A highly technical or difficult piece, usually written for effect. | [noun] A display of daring. | [adjective] Overly showy; ostentatious. BRECCIA (13) [noun] A rock composed of angular fragments in a matrix that may be of a similar or a different material. BRITSKA (13) [noun] A low, open, four-wheeled carriage used in Russia, typically drawn by horses. BRITZKA (22) [noun] A type of horse-drawn carriage, with a foldable roof covering. BUBINGA (12) [noun] The timber of various species of Guibourtia. BULIMIA (11) [noun] A chronic eating disorder characterized by a binge-and-purge cycle - extreme overeating followed by self-induced vomiting. BURSERA (9) [noun] A tropical American tree of the cashew family that produces a fragrant resin used in incense and varnish. BUZUKIA (22) CABBALA (13) [proper noun] A body of mystical Jewish teachings based on an esoteric reading of the Hebrew scriptures. CABOMBA (15) [noun] An aquatic plant with finely divided leaves, commonly used in aquariums. CADENZA (19) [noun] A part of a piece of music, such as a concerto, that is very decorative and is played by a single musician. CAESURA (9) [noun] A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art. | [noun] (Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot. | [noun] The caesura mark ‖ or ||. CALDERA (10) [noun] A large crater formed by collapse of the cone or edifice of a volcano. CAMELIA (11) [noun] A flowering evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Camellia, native to Asia, with glossy leaves and showy flowers. CAMISIA (11) [noun] A long linen shirt or undergarment worn in medieval times, especially by clergy or as an undertunic. CAMORRA (11) [noun] A secret society of criminals in Naples, Italy. | [noun] Any organized group of criminals or mafia. CANASTA (9) [noun] (games) A card game similar to rummy and played using two packs, where the object is to meld groups of the same rank. | [noun] A meld of seven cards in a game of canasta. CANDELA (10) [noun] In the International System of Units, the base unit of luminous intensity; the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 × 1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian. Symbol: cd CANDIDA (11) [noun] A yeast of the genus Candida, usually specifically Candida albicans CANELLA (9) [noun] A type of cinnamon or a related aromatic bark used as a spice, obtained from trees of the genus Canella. CANNULA (9) [noun] A tube inserted in the body to drain or inject fluid. | [noun] A hose or tube that connects directly to an oxygen (O2) bottle/source from the user's nose, commonly used by aircraft pilots or others needing direct oxygen breathing apparatus. CANTALA (9) [noun] A Philippine plant (Agave cantala) that yields a fiber used for rope and twine. | [noun] The fiber obtained from this plant, used in making cordage and textiles. CANTATA (9) [noun] A vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement, typical of 17th and 18th century Italian music. CANTINA (9) [noun] A drinking establishment, often specifically of the type found in Latin America. | [noun] Abbreviated form of cantina truck, cantina wagon or cantina trailer CANZONA (18) [noun] A type of instrumental composition based on multipart vocal settings of canzoni, produced chiefly in the 16th and 17th centuries CARAMBA (13) [interjection] (non-vulgar) Exclamation of surprise or dismay.; golly! CARBORA (11) CARIOCA (11) [noun] An inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro. | [noun] A sideways step in which one leg crosses over the other. CASCARA (11) [noun] A North American buckthorn (Frangula purshiana, syn. Rhamnus purshiana) whose bark is used as a laxative. | [noun] Dried coffee cherry fruit used in teas and other drinks. CASSABA (11) [noun] A type of melon with a yellow rind and sweet, pale green flesh, similar to a cantaloupe. CASSATA (9) [noun] A type of tutti-frutti or Neapolitan ice cream with nuts and candied fruits. | [noun] A rich cake, typical of Sicily, containing liqueur layered with ricotta, candied fruit and chocolate. CASSAVA (12) [noun] Manioc (Manihot esculenta), a tropical plant which is the source of tapioca. | [noun] Tapioca, a starchy pulp made with manioc roots. CATALPA (11) [noun] Any tree of the genus Catalpa, in the family Bignoniaceae. The two North American species, the southern catalpa, Catalpa bignonioides, and the northern catalpa, Catalpa speciosa — along with the yellow catalpa, Catalpa ovata, from China — are often planted as ornamentals because of their showy flowers and decorative bean pods, though others regard the bean pods as a nuisance. CATAWBA (14) [noun] The catawba grape, a cultivar of North American Vitis labrusca. | [noun] A light sparkling wine made from this kind of grape. | [noun] Any of various species of catalpa trees Catalpa. CAVALLA (12) [noun] A large game fish of the jack family found in tropical and subtropical Atlantic waters, also known as a kingfish. CEDILLA (10) [noun] In the spelling of Catalan, French, Portuguese and some other languages, a mark (¸) sometimes placed under the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced /s/ rather than /k/, as in Catalan força, French menaçant, and Portuguese almoço, and also used in various other languages to change the sounds of other letters. CELESTA (9) [noun] A musical instrument consisting principally of a set of graduated steel plates struck with hammers that are activated by a keyboard. CELOSIA (9) [noun] An ornamental amaranth of the genus Celosia CEMENTA (11) CEREBRA (11) [noun] The upper part of the brain, which is divided into the two cerebral hemispheres. In humans it is the largest part of the brain and is the seat of motor and sensory functions, and the higher mental functions such as consciousness, thought, reason, emotion, and memory. CHALAZA (21) [noun] The location where the nucellus attaches to the integuments, opposite the micropyle. | [noun] One of the two spiral bands which attach the yolk of an egg to the eggshell, suspending it in the white. CHARKHA (19) [noun] A domestic spinning wheel, used mostly for spinning cotton. CHIASMA (14) [noun] A crossing of two nerves, ligaments etc. | [noun] The contact point between the two chromatids of a chromosome during meiosis. CHIMERA (14) [noun] Alternative letter-case form of Chimera (a flame-spewing monster often represented as having two heads, one of a goat and the other of a lion; the body of a goat; and a serpent as a tail). | [noun] Any fantastic creature with parts from different animals. | [noun] Anything composed of very disparate parts. CHOLERA (12) [noun] Any of several acute infectious diseases of humans and domestic animals, caused by certain strains of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium through ingestion of contaminated water or food, usually marked by severe gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, and dehydration. CHRISMA (14) CHUTZPA (23) [noun] Nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion. CIBORIA (11) [noun] A fixed vaulted canopy over a Christian altar, supported on four columns. | [noun] A covered receptacle for holding the consecrated wafers of the Eucharist. CINGULA (10) [noun] The girdle of an alb. | [noun] A collection of white matter fibers projecting from the cingulate gyrus to the entorhinal cortex in the brain, allowing for communication between components of the limbic system. | [noun] A ridge that girdles the base of an upper molar tooth. CITHARA (12) [noun] An ancient Greek stringed instrument, which could be considered a forerunner of the guitar. CLARKIA (13) [noun] Any of several annual flowering plants, of the genus Clarkia, native to the Americas. COAGULA (10) [noun] A mass of coagulated material; a clot or curd COCHLEA (14) [noun] The complex, spirally coiled, tapered cavity of the inner ear in which sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses. | [noun] A spiral-shaped shell, especially that of a snail. CODEINA (10) COMITIA (11) [noun] A public assembly or gathering in ancient Rome. | [noun] The plural of comitium, referring to the place where such assemblies were held. COMMATA (13) [noun] Plural of comma, referring to multiple punctuation marks or pauses in speech or music. CONIDIA (10) [noun] A fungal spore produced asexually in a conidiophore. COPAIBA (13) [noun] Any of several South American trees of the genus Copaifera | [noun] An oleoresin, extracted from such trees, used in varnishes, ointments and as a perfume fixative. COQUINA (18) [noun] Any of several small marine clams, of the species Donax variabilis, common in United States coastal waters. | [noun] A soft form of limestone made of fragments of shells, sometimes used as a building or road paving material. CORBINA (11) [noun] A large game fish of the drum family found in Pacific coastal waters, valued for sport fishing. CORDOBA (12) [noun] The currency of Nicaragua, divided into 100 centavos. COREMIA (11) COROLLA (9) [noun] An outermost-but-one whorl of a flower, composed of petals, when it is not the same in appearance as the outermost whorl (the calyx); it usually comprises the petal, which may be fused. CORPORA (11) [noun] A collection of writings, often on a specific topic, of a specific genre, from a specific demographic or a particular author, etc. | [noun] (specifically) Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses. | [noun] A body, a collection. CORRIDA (10) [noun] A bullfight CORVINA (12) [noun] Any of various fish, including Cilus gilberti, Larimichthys polyactis, and members of the genera Cynoscion and Isopisthus. | [noun] A red Italian grape variety, used in wines from Valpolicella and the wider region around the city of Verona. CURACOA (11) [noun] A liqueur, made from eau-de-vie, sugar and, as flavor, dried peel of sweet and sour oranges. CURCUMA (13) CURIOSA (9) [noun] Curiosities, especially erotic or pornographic books or articles. CYMATIA (14) CYPSELA (14) [noun] An achene formed from a double ovary, especially in plants of the family Compositae. CZARINA (18) [noun] An empress of several Eastern European countries, especially Russia, or the wife of a tsar. DAPHNIA (13) [noun] A water flea of the genus Daphnia. DECIDUA (11) [noun] A mucous membrane that lines the uterus and is shed during menstruation and modified during pregnancy DEJECTA (17) DELIRIA (8) DEODARA (9) DEUTZIA (17) [noun] Any of a group of cultivated shrubs, of the genus Deutzia, having white or pink flowers DHOURRA (11) DIGAMMA (13) [noun] Letter of the Old Greek alphabet: Ϝ, ϝ DILEMMA (12) [noun] A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable. | [noun] A difficult circumstance or problem. | [noun] A type of syllogism of the form "if A is true then B is true; if C is true then D is true; either A or C is true; therefore either B or D is true". DILUVIA (11) DIORAMA (10) [noun] A three-dimensional display of a scenery, often having a painted background in front of which models are arranged, e.g. in a museum where stuffed animals are presented against a painted landscape. DIPLOMA (12) [noun] A document issued by an educational institution testifying that the recipient has earned a degree or has successfully completed a particular course of study. DIPTERA (10) DIPTYCA (15) DOGMATA (11) DONGOLA (9) DRACHMA (15) [noun] The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro. | [noun] A coin worth one drachma. | [noun] An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains, or 4.3 grams. DROSERA (8) [noun] Any of several carnivorous, flowering plants of the genus Drosera. DUODENA (9) [noun] The first part of the small intestine, starting at the lower end of the stomach and extending to the jejunum. DYSPNEA (13) [noun] Difficult or labored respiration; shortness of breath. DYSURIA (11) [noun] The experience or condition of experiencing pain while discharging urine, or (rarely) of having difficulty doing so. ECHIDNA (13) [noun] Any of the species of small spined monotremes in family Tachyglossidae, the four extant species of which are found in Australia and southern New Guinea. ECTHYMA (17) ECTOPIA (11) ECTOZOA (18) EDEMATA (10) EMERITA (9) EMPORIA (11) [noun] A city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace. | [noun] A shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale; a department store; (with a descriptive word) a shop specializing in particular goods. | [noun] A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term). EMPYEMA (16) [noun] A collection of pus within a naturally existing anatomical cavity (as opposed to an abscess, which occurs in a newly formed cavity). ENCOMIA (11) [noun] Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute. | [noun] A general category of oratory. | [noun] A method within rhetorical pedagogy. ENEMATA (9) [noun] An injection of fluid into the large intestine by way of the rectum, usually for medical purposes. | [noun] The fluid so injected. | [noun] A device for administering such an injection. ENTASIA (7) ENTOZOA (16) EPHEDRA (13) [noun] Any plant of the genus Ephedra of gymnosperm shrubs. | [noun] A stimulant derived from the plant Ephedra sinica used in traditional Chinese herbal medicine and in over-the-counter weight-loss aids. EPISCIA (11) EROTICA (9) [noun] Erotic literature, art, decoration or other such work. EUGENIA (8) EUGLENA (8) [noun] Any of several protists, of the genus Euglena, that contain chloroplasts and a single flagellum EULOGIA (8) [noun] The practice of sending the consecrated Eucharist to those not present, or the Eucharist itself so sent. EUPNOEA (9) EXCRETA (16) [noun] Bodily waste which is excreted from the body. EXEMPLA (18) [noun] An example. | [noun] A story demonstrating a moral point; a parable. EXORDIA (15) [noun] A beginning. | [noun] The introduction to an essay or discourse. EXOTICA (16) [noun] A genre of American music from the 1950s, characterized by an evocative musical focus on the islands of the South Pacific. EXTREMA (16) [noun] A point, or value, which is a maximum or a minimum EXURBIA (16) [noun] A residential area beyond the suburbs. FALBALA (12) FARINHA (13) FAVELLA (13) FAZENDA (20) [noun] A Brazilian plantation, often associated with slavery during the colonial period. FELUCCA (14) [noun] A traditional wooden shallow-draught sailing boat used in the Mediterranean and along the Nile in Egypt, its rig consisting of one or two lateen sails. FERMATA (12) [noun] The holding of a note or rest for longer than its usual duration; also the notation of such a prolongation, usually represented as a dot with a semi-circle above or below it, written above or below the prolonged note or rest. FIBROMA (14) [noun] A benign tumour of fibrous connective tissue. FILARIA (10) [noun] Any of the parasitic nematode worms of superfamily Filarioidea that live in the blood of vertebrates and is transmitted by insects: the cause of filariasis. FIMBRIA (14) [noun] Any anatomical structure in the form of a fringe, but especially that around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube. | [noun] Hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria; used by the bacteria to adhere to one another, to animal cells and to some inanimate objects. FISTULA (10) [noun] An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect. | [noun] A tube, a pipe, or a hole. | [noun] The tube through which the wine of the Eucharist was once sucked from the chalice. FONTINA (10) [noun] A pale yellow cheese from Valle d'Aosta in Italy FORMULA (12) [noun] Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically. | [noun] A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound. | [noun] A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result. FOVEOLA (13) FREESIA (10) [noun] Any flowering plant of the genus Freesia, native to South Africa. FRENULA (10) FUCHSIA (15) [noun] A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers. | [noun] A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye. | [adjective] Having a purplish-red colour. FURCULA (12) [noun] A forked process or structure, generally two-pronged. | [noun] The forked bone formed by the fusion of the clavicles in birds, the wishbone or merrythought. | [noun] The (two-pronged) forked, somewhat tail-like organ held bent forward and secured by a catch beneath most species of Collembola (springtails), with which they jump by releasing the catch abruptly when alarmed. GALABIA (10) GALATEA (8) GALLETA (8) GANGLIA (9) [noun] An encapsulated collection of nerve-cell bodies, located outside the brain and spinal cord. | [noun] Any of certain masses of gray matter in the brain, as the basal ganglia. | [noun] (by extension) A centre of intellectual or industrial force, activity, etc. GASTREA (8) GAZANIA (17) [noun] Any flowering plant of the genus Gazania, native to southern Africa. GERBERA (10) [noun] A daisy of the genus Gerbera. GERMINA (10) GINGIVA (12) [noun] The gum, consisting of the tissue surrounding the roots of the teeth and covering the jawbone. GLOMERA (10) GONDOLA (9) [noun] A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice. | [noun] A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo. | [noun] A type of open railway car with low sides, used to carry heavy freight such as crushed rock or steel. GONIDIA (9) GORILLA (8) [noun] The largest of the apes, native to the forests of central Africa, and known for their trait of knuckle-walking. | [noun] A big and brutish man or a thug; a goon or ruffian. | [noun] A powerful person or organization; a heavyweight or behemoth. GRANDMA (11) [noun] Grandmother GRANDPA (11) [noun] Grandfather GRANITA (8) [noun] An Italian dessert of fruit purée etc. on crushed ice. GRANOLA (8) [noun] A breakfast and snack food consisting of loose, crispy pellets made of nuts, rolled oats, honey and other natural ingredients. | [adjective] (of a person) Eating healthy food, supporting the protection of the environment, and having liberal views. GRAVIDA (12) GUMMATA (12) [noun] A soft, non-cancerous growth, a form of granuloma, resulting from the tertiary stage of syphilis. GYNECIA (13) HAFTARA (13) HAGGADA (13) HALACHA (15) [noun] A law or tradition established by the Halacha. | [noun] A law/tradition by which Jews live. These are derived from the Torah and from later rabbinic literature. HALAKHA (17) [noun] A law or tradition established by the Halacha. | [noun] A law/tradition by which Jews live. These are derived from the Torah and from later rabbinic literature. HAMMADA (15) HARIANA (10) HELLUVA (13) [adjective] (A) hell of a; extreme. HEMIOLA (12) [noun] The articulation of two bars in triple time as if they were three bars in duple time. HETAERA (10) [noun] A highly cultivated hired female companion who would entertain upper-class male clients and might perform sex acts for them. | [noun] A mistress. HETAIRA (10) [noun] A highly cultivated hired female companion who would entertain upper-class male clients and might perform sex acts for them. | [noun] A mistress. HEXAPLA (19) HIMATIA (12) HOSANNA (10) [noun] A cry of ‘hosanna’. | [verb] To give a cry of ‘hosanna’. | [interjection] A cry of praise or adoration to God in liturgical use among the Jews, and said to have been shouted in recognition of the Messiahship of Jesus on his entry into Jerusalem; hence since used in the Christian Church. HYMENIA (15) [noun] The sporebearing surface of a fungus. HYPOGEA (16) [noun] An underground room or cavern (also used figuratively). HYPONEA (15) HYPOXIA (22) [noun] A condition in which tissues (especially the blood) are deprived of an adequate supply of oxygen; anoxia | [noun] A reduced concentration of dissolved oxygen in an aquatic environment. IGNATIA (8) IKEBANA (13) [noun] The Japanese art of flower arrangement. | [noun] An arrangement of flowers in this style. ILLUVIA (10) IMPERIA (11) IMPRESA (11) INDICIA (10) [noun] A preprinted marking on a mailpiece which shows that postage has been paid by the sender. | [noun] An indication; a sign. INDUSIA (8) [noun] A protecting membrane, especially that covering the developing spores of a fern. INEDITA (8) INERTIA (7) [noun] The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass. | [noun] In a person, unwillingness to take action. | [noun] Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased. INFANTA (10) [noun] A daughter of a king in Spain and Portugal. INFAUNA (10) [noun] Any aquatic organism that lives within the dominant medium of its environment, but especially within aquatic sediments INGESTA (8) [noun] Material introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal. INOCULA (9) [noun] The active material used in an inoculation; an inoculant IPOMOEA (11) [noun] Any of the genus Ipomoea of twining plants with showy monopetalous flowers, including the morning glory, the sweet potato, and the cypress vine. JELLABA (16) [noun] A loose-fitting, ankle-length hooded robe worn by men in North Africa. KABBALA (15) [proper noun] A body of mystical Jewish teachings based on an esoteric reading of the Hebrew scriptures. KACHINA (16) [noun] (Pueblo culture) A vaguely ancestral anthropomorphic spirit being, associated with clouds and rain or personifying the power in the sun, the earth or corn (among other things). | [noun] (Pueblo culture) A wooden doll, as might be given to a child, which represents such a being. | [noun] (Pueblo culture) A masked dancer who represents such a being in a ceremonial dance or masked ceremony. KALIMBA (15) [noun] A type of thumb piano, similar to a mbira. KATCINA (13) KEITLOA (11) KERYGMA (17) [noun] The Apostolic proclamation of religious truths; the core teachings of Christianity taught by the early Church. KHALIFA (17) KITHARA (14) [noun] An ancient Greek stringed instrument, which could be considered a forerunner of the guitar. LABELLA (9) [noun] The lower central petal of a flower (especially an orchid), usually developed to be showy and attract pollinators. | [noun] Part of the mouth of an insect, especially the sucking mouthparts of a fly. LAMELLA (9) [noun] A thin, plate-like structure. | [noun] The gill of a mushroom. LANTANA (7) [noun] Any member of the genus Lantana of perennial verbenas with aromatic flower clusters. LASAGNA (8) [noun] A flat sheet of pasta. | [noun] An Italian baked dish comprising layers of such pasta with various ingredients (usually a meat ragù (chiefly Bolognese), a fish ragù or a vegetarian/vegetable ragù with bechamel sauce) LATAKIA (11) LEMMATA (11) [noun] A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition. | [noun] The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc. | [noun] (psycholinguistics) The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word. LEMPIRA (11) [noun] The currency of Honduras, divided into 100 centavos. LEUCOMA (11) [noun] An opaque area or scar on the cornea of an eye LEUKOMA (13) [noun] An opaque area or scar on the cornea of an eye LIXIVIA (17) LOBELIA (9) [noun] A member of the genus Lobelia, flowering plants in the Lobelioideae subfamily pf family Campanulaceae, containing many species, some of which are garden plants. LOCUSTA (9) LOGANIA (8) LOMENTA (9) [noun] A type of modified legume that breaks apart at constrictions occurring between the segments of the seeds. LORDOMA (10) MACCHIA (16) MACUMBA (15) [noun] A religious cult, having elements of sorcery, ritual dance and fetishes, from Brazil MADEIRA (10) [noun] Madeira (wine) MADONNA (10) [noun] A one-footed lien-to-tail trick, where the front foot is taken off and kicked out straight down behind the board. MADRONA (10) [noun] The strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo). | [noun] Any of three local relatives: MAGENTA (10) [noun] A vibrant light purple, purplish-red, reddish-purple, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing. | [adjective] Having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple. MAGMATA (12) [noun] The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc. | [noun] A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation. | [noun] Any soft doughy mass. MAHATMA (14) [noun] An epithet granted in India and Tibet to people thought to have great knowledge and love of humanity | [noun] Such a person. MAHONIA (12) [noun] Any of the genus Mahonia (now often included in Berberis) of evergreen shrubs. MAJAGUA (17) MALACCA (13) MALANGA (10) [noun] Any of several Central and South American plants, of the genus Xanthosoma; yautia. | [noun] Taro (Colocasia esculenta) | [noun] The edible tuber of these plants, some of which have medicinal value. MALARIA (9) [noun] A disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium, multiplies in blood every few days. | [noun] Supposed poisonous air arising from marshy districts, once thought to cause fever. MANDALA (10) [noun] A graphic depiction of the spiritual universe and its myriad realms and deities. | [noun] Any ritualistic geometric design, symbolic of the Universe, used as an aid to meditation. | [noun] A division or book of the Rigveda (of which there are 10). MANDOLA (10) [noun] A stringed musical instrument resembling the mandolin, but of larger size and tuned lower. MANILLA (9) [noun] A penannular armlet, mostly in bronze, copper or gold, which served as a form of money or barter coinage amongst certain West African peoples. MANIOCA (11) MARANTA (9) MARASCA (11) MAREMMA (13) MARIMBA (13) [noun] A musical instrument similar to a xylophone but clearer in pitch. MARKKAA (17) MARSALA (9) [noun] A fortified wine from Sicily. | [noun] A sauce made from Marsala wine. MASCARA (11) [noun] A cosmetic used to darken and thicken the eyelashes. | [verb] To apply mascara to the eyelashes MASTABA (11) [noun] A wide stone bench built into the wall of a house, shop etc. in the Middle East. | [noun] A rectangular structure with a flat top and slightly sloping sides, built during Ancient Egyptian times above tombs that were situated on flat land. Mastabas were made of wood, mud bricks, stone, or a combination of these materials. Some are solid structures, while others can contain one or more rooms, sometimes decorated with paintings or inscriptions. MATILDA (10) [noun] A bundle of possessions, often tied up in a sack; a swag. MAXILLA (16) [noun] Either of the two bones that together form the upper jaw. | [noun] (arthropodology) One of a set of paired mouthparts found in many arthropods and used for tasting and manipulating food. MAZURKA (22) [noun] A Polish folk dance in triple time, usually moderately fast, containing a heavy accent on the third beat and occasionally the second beat. | [noun] A classical musical composition inspired by the folk dance and conforming in some respects to its form, particularly as popularized by Chopin. | [noun] A figure skating move that combines elements of the toe loop and bunny-hop. MEDULLA (10) [noun] The soft inner part of something, especially the pith of a fruit. | [noun] The inner substance of various organs and structures, especially the marrow of bones. | [noun] The medulla oblongata. MELISMA (11) [noun] A passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text, as in Gregorian chant. MELODIA (10) MEROPIA (11) MESHUGA (13) [adjective] Crazy, mad, senseless, insane MESTIZA (18) [noun] A female mestizo. METAZOA (18) [noun] The multicellular animals of the subkingdom Metazoa considered collectively. MICELLA (11) MILITIA (9) [noun] An army of trained civilians, which may be an official reserve army, called upon in time of need, the entire able-bodied population of a state which may also be called upon, or a private force not under government control. | [noun] The police in the Soviet Union and some related or successor states (e.g. modern Belarus). MINORCA (11) MINUTIA (9) [noun] A minor detail, often of negligible importance. | [noun] (biometrics, forensics) Any of the point features on fingerprints used for matching, usually endings and bifurcations of ridges. MOCHILA (14) MOJARRA (16) [noun] A perciform fish in the family Gerreidae, often used as bait. MOMENTA (11) [noun] Of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity. | [noun] The impetus, either of a body in motion, or of an idea or course of events; a moment. MONARDA (10) MORPHIA (14) [noun] Morphine MOVIOLA (12) MOZETTA (18) [noun] A short cape worn by some Catholic clergy. MYALGIA (13) [noun] Muscular pain or tenderness. MYCELIA (14) [noun] The vegetative part of any fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, threadlike hyphae, often underground. MYELOMA (14) [noun] A malignant tumour arising from cells of the bone marrow, specifically plasma cells. MYOMATA (14) NANDINA (8) [noun] An ornamental plant, Nandina domestica, native to Eastern Asia, from the Himalayas to Japan. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Nandina. NAPHTHA (15) [noun] Naturally occurring liquid petroleum. | [noun] Any of a wide variety of aliphatic or aromatic liquid hydrocarbon mixtures distilled from petroleum or coal tar, especially as used in solvents or petrol. NEUROMA (9) [noun] A tumour composed of nerve cells. NEURULA (7) NIRVANA (10) [noun] Complete cessation of suffering; a blissful state attained through realization of sunyata; enlightened experience. | [noun] (non-Buddhist) State of paradise; heightened or great pleasure. NONCOLA (9) NOUMENA (9) [noun] A thing as it is independent of any conceptualization or perception by the human mind, postulated by practical reason but existing in a condition which is in principle unknowable and unexperienceable. NOVELLA (10) [noun] A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella. | [noun] A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work. | [noun] A novelty; something new. OCARINA (9) [noun] A woodwind musical instrument that is closed at both sides to produce an enclosed space, and punctured with finger holes. OOGONIA (8) [noun] An immature ovarian egg within a developing fetus | [noun] A sac (the female gametangium) containing oospheres in algae or fungi. OOTHECA (12) [noun] An egg case of any of the orthopteroid insects (such as cockroaches and mantids). OPUNTIA (9) [noun] Opuntia, a genus of cactus that includes such cacti as the prickly pear and xoconostle. OQUASSA (16) ORGANZA (17) [noun] A thin, stiff, sheer fabric that is made from silk or a synthetic yarn, which resembles organdy, and is used in dressmaking. OSMUNDA (10) [noun] Royal fern, osmund (of genus Osmunda) OSTEOMA (9) OSTRACA (9) [noun] A piece of pottery or stone, usually broken off from a vase or other earthenware vessel, especially one used to cast a vote during the Ancient Greek process of ostracism. OTALGIA (8) [noun] Earache OUGUIYA (11) [noun] The currency of Mauritania, divided into five khoums. OVERSEA (10) [adjective] Abroad. | [adjective] (used with ethnicities, nationalities, or religious affiliations) Living (being resident) in a foreign country. | [adjective] Across a sea; to or in an area across a sea. OVIPARA (12) OXYMORA (19) PAISANA (9) PALABRA (11) PALMYRA (14) [noun] A palm, Borassus flabelliformis, with straight black upright trunk and palmate leaves, whose wood, fruit, and roots can be used for many purposes. PALOOKA (13) [noun] A stupid, oafish or clumsy person. | [noun] Someone incompetent or untalented. PANACEA (11) [noun] A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all. | [noun] Something that will solve all problems. | [noun] The plant allheal (Valeriana officinalis), believed to cure all ills. PANDORA (10) [noun] Any fish of the genus Pagellus. PANDURA (10) PANOCHA (14) PAPILLA (11) [noun] A nipple-like anatomical structure. PAPRICA (13) PAPRIKA (15) [noun] Powdered spice made from dried and ground fruits of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper (cultivars of Capsicum annuum), or mixtures of these (used especially in Hungarian cooking). | [noun] A variety of the spice. | [noun] (rare, commonly called "dried [bell/chilli] peppers" or "dried capsicums") A dried but not yet ground fruit of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper sold for use as a spice. PAREIRA (9) [noun] Chondrodendron tomentosum, a large tropical liana native to Central and South America, and a source of tubocurare. | [noun] A tonic diuretic drug derived from various South and Central American plants. PARERGA (10) [noun] A piece of work that is supplementary to or a byproduct of a larger work. PARTITA (9) [noun] A type of instrumental suite popular in the 18th century PASTINA (9) PATAGIA (10) [noun] The thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of a bat or of gliding mammals. | [noun] A similar membrane between the body and wing of a bird. | [noun] One of the scales affixed to the pronotum of lepidopterous insects; the tegula. PATELLA (9) [noun] The sesamoid bone of the knee; the kneecap. | [noun] A little dish or vase. PAVLOVA (15) [noun] (foods) A meringue dessert usually topped with fruit and cream. PECULIA (11) PELORIA (9) PEMBINA (13) PERGOLA (10) [noun] A framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants | [noun] Such a framework employed to provide shade, especially over a patio. PERIDIA (10) [noun] The outer layer that covers the spore-bearing organ in many fungi. PERILLA (9) PERINEA (9) [noun] The region between the human genitalia and anus. PERSONA (9) [noun] A social role. | [noun] A character played by an actor. | [noun] The mask or appearance one presents to the world. PETUNIA (9) [noun] Any of the flowering plants of genus Petunia, of which most garden varieties are hybrids. | [noun] A dark purple colour, like that of some petunia flowers. | [adjective] Of a dark purple colour, like that of some petunia flowers. PHILTRA (12) PIASABA (11) PIASAVA (12) PIGNORA (10) PINNULA (9) PINTADA (10) PIRAGUA (10) [noun] A Puerto Rican frozen dessert, shaped like a pyramid, made of shaved ice and covered with fruit-flavored syrup. | [noun] A dugout canoe. | [noun] A vessel made by cutting a canoe in two lengthwise and inserting a large plank. PIRANHA (12) [noun] Any of the carnivorous freshwater fish living in South American rivers and belonging to the subfamily Serrasalminae. PISCINA (11) [noun] A drained basin near a church's altar for the disposal of water from liturgical ablutions. | [noun] A basin or tank, especially one for holding fishes or for growing aquatic plants. PLANULA (9) [noun] In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula. | [noun] The larva of a hydrozoan, which is free-swimming and covered in cilia. PLATINA (9) PLECTRA (11) [noun] A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc. | [noun] A projection of bone or other stiff tissue, such as the ridges in some insects' stridulatory organs. PLUGOLA (10) [noun] Undeclared or illicit publicity or product promotion, especially on radio or television. PODAGRA (11) [noun] Gout in the big toe PODESTA (10) POGONIA (10) [noun] Any of the orchid genus Pogonia. POLENTA (9) [noun] Any of various types and consistencies of a starchy accompaniment to a meal made from coarse maize-meal porridge, sometimes fried or grilled. POLYNYA (15) [noun] A naturally formed area of open water surrounded by sea ice, especially in the Arctic. POLYOMA (14) PRECAVA (14) PRIMULA (11) [noun] Any plant of the genus Primula; the primroses. PRONOTA (9) PROPYLA (14) [noun] The porch, vestibule, or entrance of an edifice. PROSOMA (11) [noun] The front segment of a body which is divided into two or more segments, especially the cephalothorax of an arachnid or crustacean. PTERYLA (12) PUDENDA (11) [noun] (usually in the plural) An external genital organ in a human; especially a woman’s vulva. | [noun] (in the plural) A person’s genital organ, mons pubis, anus, and buttocks collectively. | [noun] A shameful part of something. PUPARIA (11) [noun] An enclosing case of a pupa that is formed from the exoskeleton of an insect's final stage before pupation. PURPURA (11) [noun] The appearance of red or purple discolorations on the skin that do not blanch when pressure is applied, caused by subdermal bleeding. PYAEMIA (14) [noun] A type of septicemia caused usually by the presence of Staphylococcus bacteria in the bloodstream; characterised by metastatic abscesses and other symptoms associated with septicemia. PYGIDIA (14) [noun] The caudal plate of trilobites, crustacea, and certain insects. PYREXIA (19) [noun] Fever. | [noun] Trench fever. PYXIDIA (20) [noun] A seed capsule in the form of a box, the seeds being released when the top splits off. QUASSIA (16) [noun] Any of several tropic trees, of the genus Quassia, having scarlet flowers. | [noun] The bitter substance quassin extracted from its bark. QUERIDA (17) [noun] (in Latin-American contexts) darling QUINELA (16) QUININA (16) RAMENTA (9) RASBORA (9) RATAFIA (10) [noun] A liqueur or cordial flavored with peach or cherry kernels, bitter almonds, or other fruits. | [noun] A kind of cake made with almonds. REFUGIA (11) [noun] Any local environment that has escaped regional ecological change and therefore provides a habitat for endangered species. | [noun] (aquaculture) A separate section of a fishtank that shares the same water supply, used for denitrification, plankton production, etc. REGALIA (8) [noun] A kind of large cigar of superior quality. | [noun] Royal rights, prerogatives and privileges actually enjoyed by any sovereign, regardless of his title (emperor, grand duke etc.). | [noun] The emblems, symbols, or paraphernalia indicative of royalty or any other sovereign status; such as a crown, orb, sceptre or sword. REGATTA (8) [noun] A series of boat races, or sometimes a single race. | [noun] A striped cotton fabric. REGMATA (10) REPLICA (11) [noun] An exact copy. | [noun] A copy made at a smaller scale than the original. RESIDUA (8) [noun] The residue, remainder or rest of something | [noun] The solid material remaining after the liquid in which it was dissolved has been evaporated; a residue. | [noun] A binary function from [0,1] × [0,1] to [0,1] which is defined in terms of the t-norm as follows: x \rightarrow y = \sup \{ z | z * x \leqslant y\}, where * denotes the t-norm function and \sup denotes the supremum. RETSINA (7) [noun] A Greek resinated white or rosé wine of a sort that has been produced for at least 2700 years. RHIZOMA (21) RHODORA (11) [noun] Rhododendron canadense, a deciduous flowering shrub native to northeastern North America. RICKSHA (16) [noun] A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person. RICOTTA (9) [noun] A soft Italian unsalted whey cheese resembling cottage cheese. RIKISHA (14) RIVIERA (10) [noun] Any coastal area popular with tourists. ROBUSTA (9) [noun] A plant of the African coffee plant species Coffea canephora. | [noun] Beans, ground roasted beans, or beverage from the robusta coffee bean. ROSARIA (7) [noun] A rose-garden. ROSEOLA (7) [noun] A rosy rash occurring in measles, typhoid fever, syphilis and some other diseases. | [noun] The common name for roseola infantum. | [noun] German measles. ROTUNDA (8) [noun] A round building, usually small, often with a dome | [noun] (frequently capitalized) A Gothic typeface used in early printed books in Northern Italy, based on a rounded script developed in the 13th cent.; the manuscript hand on which this typeface was based | [noun] A roundabout; a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island. RUBELLA (9) [noun] A mild disease caused by the Rubella virus infecting the respiratory tract, and characterised by a rash of pink dots, fever and swollen lymph nodes. RUBEOLA (9) [noun] Measles RUFIYAA (13) [noun] The official currency of Maldives, equal to 100 laari. SAMBUCA (13) [noun] An Italian liqueur made from elderberries and flavoured with licorice, traditionally served with 3 coffee beans that represent health, wealth and fortune (or past, present and future). | [noun] An ancient form of triangular harp having a very sharp, shrill tone. SAMSARA (9) [noun] In Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and some other eastern religions, the ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth endured by human beings and all other mortal beings, and from which release is obtained by achieving the highest enlightenment. SANGRIA (8) [noun] A cold drink, originating in Spain, consisting of red or white wine, brandy or sherry, fruit juice, sugar and soda water and garnished with orange and other fruit. | [noun] A deep red color. SAPHENA (12) SARCOMA (11) [noun] A type of malignant tumor of the bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue. SARDANA (8) SATSUMA (9) [noun] A seedless and easy-peeling cultivar of mandarin orange of Japanese origin; Citrus unshiu. SAVANNA (10) [noun] A tropical grassland with scattered trees SAXTUBA (16) SCANDIA (10) SCAPULA (11) [noun] Either of the two large, flat, bones forming the back of the shoulder. SCHOLIA (12) [noun] A scholium. | [noun] A note added to a text as an explanation, criticism or commentary | [noun] A note added to a proof as amplification SCOPULA (11) [noun] A dense tuft of hair, as on the legs of certain insects. SCOTOMA (11) [noun] An area of impaired or lost vision within a field of vision otherwise in a good (or at least healthy) state. SEDILIA (8) [noun] A series of seats, often recessed into the wall, on the south side of the chancel or choir for the use of officiating clergy. | [noun] One of a row of seats in an Ancient Roman amphitheatre. | [noun] A seat in the chancel of a church near the altar, for the officiating clergyman. SENHORA (10) SENOPIA (9) SEQUELA (16) [noun] A disease or condition which is caused by an earlier disease or problem. | [noun] That which follows; an inference or corollary. SEQUOIA (16) [noun] Sequoiadendron giganteum, a coniferous evergreen tree formerly in the genus Sequoia, now placed in Sequoiadendron. | [noun] Sequoia sempervirens, a coniferous evergreen tree, the only living species of the genus Sequoia. SERIEMA (9) [noun] Either of two species of bird in the family Cariamidae, endemic to South America. SERINGA (8) SESTINA (7) [noun] A highly structured poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet or envoy, for a total of thirty-nine lines. | [noun] A chord comprising the first six members of the harmonic series. SEVRUGA (11) [noun] A type of sturgeon, Acipenser stellatus. | [noun] An expensive caviar made from its eggs. SHICKSA (16) SHORTIA (10) SIGNORA (8) [noun] Mrs; madam; title of address or respect for women in Italy. SILESIA (7) SILIQUA (16) [noun] A weight of four grains; a carat. | [noun] A long dry fruit (seed capsule), length more than twice the width, typical to cruciferous plants and consisting of two fused carpels that separate when ripe. SINOPIA (9) SOLARIA (7) [noun] An establishment with sunbeds in it or where one can rent sunbeds. | [noun] A room, with many windows, exposed to the sun. | [noun] A sundial. SOLATIA (7) [noun] A form of compensation for emotional rather than physical or financial harm. | [noun] Intangible or emotional compensation. SPATULA (9) [noun] A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting or stirring food. | [noun] A kitchen utensil consisting of a flexible surface attached to a long handle, used for scraping the sides of bowls. | [noun] A palette knife. SPECTRA (11) [noun] A range; a continuous, infinite, one-dimensional set, possibly bounded by extremes. | [noun] Specifically, a range of colours representing light (electromagnetic radiation) of contiguous frequencies; hence electromagnetic spectrum, visible spectrum, ultraviolet spectrum, etc. | [noun] The autism spectrum. SPECULA (11) [noun] A medical instrument used during an examination to dilate an orifice. | [noun] A mirror, especially one used in a telescope. | [noun] A bright, lustrous patch of colour found on the wings of ducks and some other birds, usually situated on the distal portions of the secondary quills, and much more brilliant in the adult male than in the female. SPICULA (11) [noun] A little spike; a spikelet. | [noun] A pointed fleshy appendage. | [noun] A thrusting javelin used by Romans that replaced the pilum in the late 3rd century. SPINULA (9) SPIRAEA (9) [noun] Any of many flowering shrubs, of the genus Spiraea, that have clusters of white or pink flowers | [noun] The Astilbe. SPIRULA (9) SPLENIA (9) [noun] The thick posterior part of the corpus callosum of the brain. SQUILLA (16) SRADDHA (12) STAMINA (9) [noun] The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc. | [noun] The basic elements of a thing; rudimentary structures or qualities. | [noun] In flowering plants, the structure in a flower that produces pollen, typically consisting of an anther and a filament. STASIMA (9) STHENIA (10) STOMATA (9) [noun] One of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass. | [noun] A small opening in a membrane; a surgically constructed opening, especially one in the abdominal wall that permits the passage of waste after a colostomy or ileostomy. | [noun] A mouthlike opening, such as the oral cavity of a nematode. STRETTA (7) SUBAREA (9) SUBIDEA (10) SUBPENA (11) SUBTAXA (16) SUCCUBA (13) SUDARIA (8) [noun] A napkin or handkerchief. SULTANA (7) [noun] A pale yellow raisin made from a seedless grape. | [noun] A female sultan or wife or mistress of a sultan. | [noun] A female ruler of a sultanate. SYCONIA (12) [noun] A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig; a hollow ball with a stalk at one end and an opening (ostiole) at the other, with flowers or fruits on the inside SYNOVIA (13) SYRINGA (11) [noun] Sweet mock orange, Philadelphus coronarius. | [noun] Hence any of several flowering plants of the genus Philadelphus, such as now in the Western United States Philadelphus lewisii. | [noun] Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Syringa, such as the lilacs. TAFFETA (13) [noun] A crisp, smooth woven fabric made from silk or synthetic fibers. TALARIA (7) [noun] The winged sandals worn by certain gods and goddesses, especially the Roman god Mercury (and his Greek counterpart Hermes). TALOOKA (11) TAMASHA (12) [noun] A visual art form from Maharashtra, India, involving singing and dancing. | [noun] (colonial India) Any traditional indigenous public ceremony. TAMBALA (11) [noun] Malawi's minor currency unit, a hundredth of a kwacha. TAMBURA (11) [noun] A type of long-necked lute-like stringed instrument found throughout the world but originating in the traditional music of India. TAMPALA (11) TANTARA (7) TAPIOCA (11) [noun] A starchy food made from the cassava plant, used in puddings. TARTANA (7) TAVERNA (10) [noun] A small Greek restaurant. TEGMINA (10) [noun] A covering or integument, usually referring to a thin layer or membrane in an organism. | [noun] An integument such as the inner membrane of the coat of a seed. | [noun] A covering such as the thin layer of bone in the roof of the middle ear of mammals. TEMPERA (11) [noun] A medium used to bind pigments in painting, as well as the associated artistic techniques. | [noun] A painting done in this medium. TEMPURA (11) [noun] A Japanese dish made by deep-frying vegetables, seafood, or other foods in a light batter. TEQUILA (16) [noun] An alcoholic liquor distilled from the fermented juice of the Central American century plant Agave tequilana TESSERA (7) [noun] A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic. | [noun] Complex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Triton TILAPIA (9) [noun] Any of various edible fish, of the genus Tilapia, native to Africa and the Middle East but naturalized worldwide. TIMPANA (11) TITANIA (7) TOCCATA (11) [noun] A piece of music (usually for a keyboard instrument) designed to emphasise the dexterity of the performer. TOMBOLA (11) [noun] A lottery in which winning tickets are drawn from a revolving drum. TOMENTA (9) [noun] A mass of filamentous hairs on the leaf of a plant. | [noun] A covering of fine, soft hairs; a pubescence. | [noun] A network of fine blood vessels between the pia mater and the cerebral cortex. TOSTADA (8) [noun] (often in the plural) A flat tortilla that has been fried or toasted, or a dish based on this. Usually associated with the cuisine of Latin America. | [noun] (southern California) A bowl-shaped tortilla that has been fried and filled with various ingredients. TOXEMIA (16) [noun] Blood poisoning; adverse reaction to toxic byproducts of systemic infection. TRACHEA (12) [noun] A thin-walled, cartilaginous tube connecting the larynx to the bronchi; the windpipe. | [noun] Xylem vessel. | [noun] One of the cuticle-lined primary tubes in the respiratory system of an insect, which extend throughout its body. TREHALA (10) TRITOMA (9) TRYMATA (12) TSARINA (7) [noun] An empress of several Eastern European countries, especially Russia, or the wife of a tsar. TUATARA (7) [noun] Either of two reptiles, Sphenodon punctatus and Sphenodon guntheri, native to New Zealand, that resemble lizards. TUATERA (7) TURISTA (7) TYMPANA (14) [noun] A triangular space between the sides of a pediment. | [noun] The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch. | [noun] The middle ear. TZARINA (16) [noun] An empress of several Eastern European countries, especially Russia, or the wife of a tsar. URAEMIA (9) [noun] Blood poisoning resulting from the retention of waste products usually excreted as urine. URETHRA (10) [noun] The tube through which urine exits the body and, in penises, through which semen is ejaculated. VACCINA (14) VALONIA (10) [noun] The European evergreen oak, Quercus macrolepis, now Quercus ithaburensis subsp. macrolepis, or Quercus aegilops. | [noun] The dried acorn cups of this tree, which are used to make a black dye, used in tanning. VALVULA (13) VANILLA (10) [noun] Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes. | [noun] The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant. | [noun] The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant. VARIOLA (10) [noun] Smallpox VASCULA (12) [noun] A container used by botanists to keep samples viable by maintaining a cool, humid environment. VEDALIA (11) VELARIA (10) [noun] The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora | [noun] An awning that stretched over the seating area of the Colosseum in Ancient Rome VERANDA (11) [noun] A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building. VERBENA (12) [noun] Verbena, a genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain. VERRUCA (12) [noun] A wart, especially one that grows on the foot, caused by a human papilloma virus. | [noun] A rounded projection or wart. | [noun] A sexine element similar to a wart. VEXILLA (17) [noun] A flag, banner, or standard. | [noun] A company of troops serving under one standard. | [noun] The sign of the cross. VIATICA (12) [noun] The Eucharist, when given to a person who is dying or one in danger of death. | [noun] Provisions, money, or other supplies given to someone setting off on a long journey. | [noun] A portable altar. VICUGNA (13) VINCULA (12) [noun] A bond or link signifying union. | [noun] Any symbol used to group some of the terms in an expression, indicating that that part of the calculation should be done before other parts. | [noun] A horizontal line over the top of some of the terms in an expression, indicating that that part of the calculation is to be done before other parts. VIREMIA (12) [noun] The condition or disease of having a virus in the bloodstream. VISCERA (12) [noun] Collectively, the internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities, such as the liver, heart, or stomach. | [noun] The intestines. | [noun] One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen. VIVARIA (13) [noun] A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals. WAKANDA (15) WEIGELA (11) [noun] Any plant of the genus Weigela. WHOOPLA (15) WOMMERA (14) WOODSIA (11) [noun] Any of the fern genus Woodsia. WOOMERA (12) [noun] An Australian spearthrower consisting of a stick with a hooked end. YAMALKA (16) YAMULKA (16) YESHIVA (16) [noun] An academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts. ZAMARRA (18) ZAREEBA (18) ZELKOVA (23) ZEMSTVA (21) ZENAIDA (17) ZINGARA (17) ZOOECIA (18) ZOOGLEA (17) ZORILLA (16) [noun] Ictonyx striatus, a small, carnivorous, nocturnal African mammal resembling a skunk. ZYZZYVA (43)

ABDOMINA (13) ABRACHIA (15) ABSCISSA (12) [noun] The first of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes. | [noun] The horizontal line representing an axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, on which the abscissa (sense above) is shown. ACADEMIA (13) [noun] (collective) The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole. | [noun] Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship. ACELDAMA (13) [noun] A field of blood; a place of slaughter or carnage, specifically referring to the field purchased with Judas's thirty pieces of silver according to biblical tradition. ACHILLEA (13) [noun] Any of various plants of the genus Achillea ACIDEMIA (13) [noun] A condition characterized by excessive acidity in the blood, typically indicated by a pH below 7.35. ACIDURIA (11) [noun] The presence of acid in the urine, or a condition characterized by excessive acid in the urine. ADULARIA (9) [noun] A variety of orthoclase feldspar that exhibits a pearly luster and is often used as a gemstone. ADYNAMIA (14) [noun] Lack of physical strength or energy; weakness or debility. AGENESIA (9) AGNOMINA (11) [noun] Plural of agnomen, a fourth name given to Roman emperors or generals to commemorate a victory or achievement. AGRAPHIA (14) [noun] A loss of the ability to write (usually resulting from a brain injury). | [noun] The inability to write. AGRYPNIA (14) [noun] Insomnia or sleeplessness, especially as a medical condition or symptom. ALBIZZIA (28) [noun] Any of a number of trees and shrubs considered either now or formerly to belong to the genus Albizia ALGAROBA (11) ALLELUIA (8) [noun] A liturgical form of hallelujah. | [noun] A choral composition incorporating alleluia in its text. | [noun] The plant wood sorrel. ALOPECIA (12) [noun] Baldness. | [noun] Deficiency of the hair, which may be caused by failure to grow or loss after growth. | [noun] Loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers, which either happens naturally or is caused by disease. AMBERINA (12) AMBROSIA (12) [noun] The food of the gods, thought to confer immortality. | [noun] The anointing-oil of the gods. | [noun] Any food with an especially delicious flavour or fragrance. AMPHIBIA (17) [noun] A class of cold-blooded vertebrate animals that live part of their life in water and part on land, including frogs, toads, and salamanders. AMYGDALA (15) [noun] The region of the brain, located in the medial temporal lobe, believed to play a key role in the emotions, such as fear and pleasure, in both animals and humans. ANABAENA (10) [noun] A genus of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) that can form blooms in freshwater environments and may produce toxins. ANACONDA (11) [noun] Any of various large nonvenomous snakes of the genus Eunectes, found mainly in northern South America. Their length can grow to as much as 5 m (15 ft). | [noun] (by extension) A large penis. | [proper noun] A particular variety of stud poker. ANALECTA (10) [noun] Analects ANALEMMA (12) [noun] An egg-shaped or figure-eight curve that results when the Sun's position in the sky is plotted out over the year at the same hour of mean solar time every day. ANAPHORA (13) [noun] An expression referring to another expression. In stricter uses, an expression referring to something earlier in the discourse or, even more strictly, only reflexive and reciprocal pronouns. | [noun] The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of phrases, sentences, or verses, used for emphasis. | [noun] An expression that can refer to virtually any referent, the specific referent being defined by context. ANASARCA (10) [noun] A medical condition characterized by excessive accumulation of fluid in body tissues, causing generalized swelling. ANATHEMA (13) [noun] A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed. | [noun] (by extension) Something which is vehemently disliked by somebody. | [noun] An imprecation; a curse; a malediction. ANECDOTA (11) ANGELICA (11) [noun] A tall plant, with hollow stems, genus Angelica, especially the garden angelica (Angelica archangelica). | [noun] Candied stems of the plant, used to decorate cookies. | [noun] Species of Aralia. ANOOPSIA (10) ANOREXIA (15) [noun] Loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease. | [noun] Anorexia nervosa. ANOXEMIA (17) [noun] A deficiency of oxygen in the blood. | [noun] A condition characterized by insufficient oxygen content in the arterial blood. ANTEFIXA (18) [noun] Plural of antefix, ornamental blocks or tiles placed at the eaves of a classical building to conceal the ends of roof tiles. ANTHELIA (11) [noun] A faint, white halo rarely seen in the sky opposite the sun on the parhelic circle ANTHEMIA (13) [noun] An ornamental design consisting of palmettes or lotus flowers. ANTHODIA (12) [noun] Plural of anthodium; a type of flower cluster or inflorescence composed of small flowers arranged on a common receptacle. ANTIDORA (9) ANTISERA (8) [noun] A serum prepared from human or animal sources containing antibodies specific for combatting an infectious disease. APIMANIA (12) APOLOGIA (11) [noun] A written defense of a position or belief. ARAPAIMA (12) [noun] A large carnivorous predatory South American tropical freshwater fish, Arapaima gigas. ARBORETA (10) [noun] A place where many varieties of tree are grown for research, educational, and ornamental purposes. ARETHUSA (11) ARMONICA (12) [noun] A musical instrument consisting of a series of glass bowls of graduated sizes that produce sound when rubbed with wet fingers, invented by Benjamin Franklin in the 18th century. ARYTHMIA (16) [noun] An abnormal heart rhythm; a cardiac condition characterized by irregular heartbeats. | [noun] Loss or absence of rhythm. ASPHYXIA (23) [noun] Loss of consciousness due to the interruption of breathing and consequent anoxia. | [noun] Loss of consciousness due to the body's inability to deliver oxygen to its tissues, either by the breathing of air lacking oxygen or by the inability of the blood to carry oxygen. | [noun] A condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body leads to loss of consciousness or death. Replaced in the mid-20th century by the more specific terms anoxia, hypoxia, hypoxemia and hypercapnia. ASPIRATA (10) ASTHENIA (11) [noun] Weakness; loss of strength. ASTIGMIA (11) [noun] A refractive error of the eye in which the cornea or lens has different curvatures in different meridians, causing blurred vision at all distances. ASYNDETA (12) [noun] A stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of words, phrases, clauses. ATARAXIA (15) [noun] Tranquility of mind; absence of mental disturbance. ATHEROMA (13) [noun] An abnormal fatty deposit which develops within the walls of arteries. | [noun] A kind of cyst on the scalp. ATROPHIA (13) [noun] A wasting away or diminution in size of a body part or tissue, especially due to disease or disuse; atrophy. AUBRETIA (10) [noun] Any plant of the genus Aubrieta AUBRIETA (10) [noun] A low-growing flowering plant of the genus Aubrieta, with purple, pink, or blue flowers, commonly grown in rock gardens and as ground cover. AURICULA (10) [noun] The external part of the ear | [noun] A small conical pouch projecting from either atrium of the heart | [noun] A pronounced thickening at the corner of a trilete spore, beyond the end of the laesura AUTOMATA (10) [noun] A machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions. | [noun] A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion. | [noun] A formal system, such as finite automaton. AVIFAUNA (14) [noun] The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region. AYURVEDA (15) [noun] A traditional system of medicine originating in India that emphasizes balance and natural healing. AZOTEMIA (19) [noun] An abnormal increase of urea or other nitrogenous compounds in the blood, typically resulting from kidney disease or failure. AZOTURIA (17) [noun] An increase in the amount of nitrogenous material (such as urea) in the urine | [noun] A condition that affects the muscles of horses, ranging from stiffness and mild cramps to the horse becoming unable to stand, with discoloured urine BABIRUSA (12) [noun] Any of several mammals in the genus Babyrousa in the pig family Suidae, in which the upper tusk grows upward. BABUSHKA (19) [noun] An old woman. | [noun] A woman’s headscarf, tied under the chin. | [noun] Russian doll, matryoshka BACTERIA (12) [noun] A type, species, or strain of bacterium. | [noun] A derisive term for a lowlife or a slob (could be treated as plural or singular). | [noun] A single celled organism with cell walls but no nucleus or organelles. | [noun] An oval bacterium, as distinguished from a spherical coccus or rod-shaped bacillus. BAIDARKA (15) [noun] A light Aleutian or Eskimo skin-covered boat similar to a kayak. BALLISTA (10) [noun] An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles. BANDANNA (11) [noun] A large kerchief, usually colourful and used either as headgear or as a handkerchief, neckerchief, bikini, or sweatband. | [noun] A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed a uniform red or dark colour, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure. BAPTISIA (12) [noun] A genus of plants in the legume family, commonly known as wild indigo, native to North America and characterized by blue, yellow, or white flowers. BARATHEA (13) [noun] A soft fabric, made from various combinations of wool, silk and cotton, with a lightly ribbed surface. BARRANCA (12) [noun] A steep-sided gulch or arroyo; a canyon or ravine. BASILICA (12) [noun] A Christian church building having a nave with a semicircular apse, side aisles, a narthex and a clerestory. | [noun] A Roman Catholic church or cathedral with basilican status, a honorific status granted by the pope to recognize its historical, architectural, or sacramental importance. | [noun] An apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; hence, any large hall used for this purpose. BATTALIA (10) [noun] A formation of soldiers drawn up in battle array; a battalion or body of troops arranged for battle. BAUHINIA (13) [noun] A tropical climbing plant or shrub of the genus Bauhinia, known for its distinctive orchid-like flowers and often used as an ornamental plant. BEDSONIA (11) BERRETTA (10) [noun] A round, flat-topped cap with a stiff brim, typically worn by soldiers or police officers. | [noun] A small firearm, specifically a type of pistol. BETHESDA (14) BIGNONIA (11) [noun] A genus of tropical climbing plants with showy flowers, commonly known as trumpet vine. BIRRETTA (10) [noun] A square cap with three or four ridges worn by Roman Catholic clergymen. BLASTEMA (12) [noun] A mass of undifferentiated cells from which an organ or part develops, especially in embryonic development or regeneration in some animals. BLASTOMA (12) [noun] A tumor or cancer that arises from embryonic tissue or immature cells. BLASTULA (10) [noun] An early form in the development of an embryo, consisting of a spherical layer of cells filled with fluid; a blastosphere. BOLTONIA (10) [noun] A genus of North American plants in the aster family, known for their daisy-like flowers. BOTANICA (12) [noun] A shop that deals in herbs and charms used especially by followers of santería. BRACIOLA (12) [noun] A thin slice of meat, typically beef, rolled with a filling of breadcrumbs, cheese, and seasonings, and braised or fried. BRANCHIA (15) [noun] A gill or other organ having the same function. BRASSICA (12) [noun] Any of many plants of the genus Brassica, including cabbage, mustard and rapes BREGMATA (13) [noun] The plural of bregma, which is the junction point on the skull where the coronal and sagittal sutures meet. BRITZSKA (23) [noun] A type of horse-drawn carriage, with a foldable roof covering. BRONCHIA (15) [noun] Plural of bronchium, relating to the bronchi or main branches of the trachea in the respiratory system. BROUHAHA (16) [noun] A stir; a fuss or uproar. BRUCELLA (12) [noun] A genus of bacteria that causes brucellosis, an infectious disease in animals and humans. BUDDLEIA (12) [noun] A tree or shrub of the genus Buddleja, especially Buddleja davidii, a large ornamental shrub whose lilac flowers attract butterflies. CABRESTA (12) [noun] A lasso or rope used for leading horses or cattle, particularly in Spanish-speaking regions. CABRETTA (12) [noun] A soft leather made from the skin of a Brazilian goat, used for gloves and other fine leather goods. CABRILLA (12) [noun] A grouper fish found in warm Atlantic and Pacific waters, valued for food and sport fishing. CACHEXIA (22) [noun] A systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies a chronic disease. CACHUCHA (20) [noun] A dance, in triple time and related to the flamenco and fandango, from Andalusia | [noun] A kind of sweet pepper grown in the Caribbean. CALCANEA (12) [noun] The large bone making up the heel of the human foot, the heel bone. CALCARIA (12) CALCTUFA (15) CALDARIA (11) [noun] In Roman baths, the hottest room, with a plunge-pool. It preceded the tepidarium and frigidarium. | [noun] In modern spas, a room with a hot floor. CALISAYA (13) [noun] A type of cinchona bark from South America, used as a source of quinine and other alkaloids. CALVARIA (13) [noun] The dome-shaped top of the skull; the cranium excluding the facial bones. CALYPTRA (15) [noun] A hood-like or cap-like structure that covers the developing sporangium in mosses, or a similar structure in other plants. CAMBOGIA (15) CAMELLIA (12) [noun] Any plant of the genus Camellia, shrubs and small trees native to Asia; Camellia japonica is the most popular as a garden plant; Camellia sinensis is the tea plant. CAMPAGNA (15) CAPITULA (12) [noun] A densely clustered inflorescence composed of a large number of individual florets arising from a platform-like base. | [noun] The head-like mouthpart apparatus of a tick, including the palpi, mandibles, and hypostome. | [noun] A small protuberance on a bone which articulates into another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint. CAPONATA (12) [noun] A Sicilian dish of baked aubergines with capers, olives, pine nuts etc, normally served cold. CAPYBARA (17) [noun] A semi-aquatic South American rodent, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, the largest living rodent. CARACARA (12) [noun] Any of several South American and Central American birds of prey in the family Falconidae. CARAGANA (11) [noun] Any of several shrubs or small trees, of the genus Caragana, that often have golden flowers CARNAUBA (12) [noun] A Brazilian palm tree having waxy, fan-shaped leaves and toothed leafstalks, Copernicia prunifera. | [noun] The hard wax obtained from the leaves of this plant and used especially in polishes. CARPALIA (12) [noun] Plural of carpel, the female reproductive organ of a flowering plant, consisting of the stigma, style, and ovary. CATHEDRA (14) [noun] A bishop's throne or official seat in a cathedral. | [noun] A professor's chair or seat of authority in a university. CATTLEYA (13) [noun] Any plant of the genus Cattleya, a species of orchid. CAVATINA (13) [noun] An operatic song in slow tempo, either complete in itself or (e.g., in Bellini and Verdi) followed by a faster, more resolute section: hence | [noun] A rather slow, song-like instrumental movement; the title, for example, of a movement in Beethoven's string quartet in B flat, op. 130 (1826) and of a once-famous piece (originally for violin and piano) by Raff, and of the slow movement of Rubra's string quartet No. 2. CELOMATA (12) [noun] Plural of coeloma; animals possessing a true body cavity (coelom) lined with mesoderm. CERCARIA (12) [noun] The parasitic larva of trematodes that infect the final host generally. CHALAZIA (22) [noun] Plural of chalazion, a small cyst or lump that forms on the eyelid due to blocked oil glands. CHAQUETA (22) CHARISMA (15) [noun] Personal charm or magnetism | [noun] An extraordinary power granted by the Holy Spirit | [noun] The ability to influence without the use of logic. CHATCHKA (22) [noun] A trinket, knickknack, or small decorative object of little value. CHICKPEA (21) [noun] An annual Asian plant (Cicer arietinum) in the pea family, widely cultivated for the edible seeds in its short inflated pods. | [noun] A seed of this plant, often used as a food. CHIMAERA (15) [noun] A cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin | [noun] Alternative letter-case form of Chimera (a flame-spewing monster often represented as having two heads, one of a goat and the other of a lion; the body of a goat; and a serpent as a tail). | [noun] Any fantastic creature with parts from different animals. CHLOASMA (15) [noun] Melasma; a cutaneous condition with yellow or yellowish-brown pigmented spots CINCHONA (15) [noun] A tree or shrub of the genus Cinchona, native to the Andes in South America but since widely cultivated in Indonesia and India as well for its medicinal bark. | [noun] The bark of these plants, which yield quinine and other alkaloids useful in reducing fevers and particularly in combatting malaria. | [noun] Any medicine chiefly composed of the prepared bark of these plants. CISTERNA (10) [noun] A reservoir or cistern, especially an anatomical cavity or sac that serves as a reservoir for fluid in the body. CLAUSTRA (10) [noun] A thin, irregular sheet of grey matter underneath the inner part of the neocortex on both sides of the brains of mammals; its exact function is not understood, but it is believed to facilitate coordination between senses. CLITELLA (10) [noun] A thickened region of the body wall in certain annelid worms, such as earthworms, that secretes a cocoon for reproduction. COCCIDIA (15) [noun] Any protozoan of the subclass Coccidia COCINERA (12) COCOBOLA (14) [noun] A tropical hardwood tree native to Central and South America, or the reddish-brown wood from this tree, prized for fine woodworking and musical instruments. COLLEGIA (11) [noun] (in Russia) A committee or council | [noun] (in Ancient Rome) Any of several legal associations COLLUVIA (13) [noun] Loose rock debris accumulated at the base of a slope or cliff, formed by weathering and gravity. | [noun] A collection of things gathered together in a disorderly manner. COLLYRIA (13) [noun] A lotion or liquid wash used as a cleanser for the eyes; an eye-salve. | [noun] Loosely, any product applied to or around the eyes; kohl. COLOBOMA (14) [noun] An abnormal hole present from birth in one of the structures of the eye, such as the lens, eyelid, or retina. COMATULA (12) [noun] A genus of crinoids (sea lilies) that are free-swimming feather stars lacking a stalk in their adult form. CONFERVA (16) [noun] A genus of green algae found in freshwater, consisting of filamentous or unbranched forms. CONTAGIA (11) [noun] Plural of contagium; disease-causing agents or infectious materials that can be transmitted from one organism to another. CONTINUA (10) [noun] A continuous series or whole, no part of which is noticeably different from its adjacent parts, although the ends or extremes of it are very different from each other. | [noun] A continuous extent. | [noun] The set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space. COPREMIA (14) [noun] Plural of copremium, a payment or premium paid jointly by multiple parties. | [noun] In insurance, additional premiums charged for specific coverage options or risk factors. COXALGIA (18) [noun] Pain in the hip joint or hip region. CREDENDA (12) [noun] Things to be believed; articles of faith or doctrine. | [noun] In plural form, fundamental principles or tenets that are accepted as true without proof. CREDENZA (20) [noun] A sideboard or buffet. | [noun] A horizontal filing cabinet, typically placed behind a desk. CRITERIA (10) [noun] A single criterion. | [noun] A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged. CTENIDIA (11) [noun] A respiratory system, in the form of a comb, in some molluscs | [noun] A row of spines in some insects CUBICULA (14) [noun] Plural of cubiculum; small rooms or bedchambers in ancient Roman houses or early Christian catacombs. CUTICULA (12) CYMBIDIA (18) CZAREVNA (22) CZARITZA (28) DAHABIYA (17) DECENNIA (11) [noun] A period of ten years. DEMENTIA (11) [noun] A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving. | [noun] Madness or insanity. DEMERARA (11) [noun] A type of natural, unrefined or partially refined cane sugar, which is light brown in colour, particularly used in pastries and biscuits like shortbread. | [noun] A dark rum, made in Guyana using molasses and this sugar, mainly used for blending. DENTALIA (9) [noun] Any of various tooth shells of the genus Dentalium. DIARRHEA (12) [noun] A gastrointestinal disorder characterized by frequent and very fluid or watery bowel movements. | [noun] The watery or very soft excrement that comes from such bowel movements. DIASPORA (11) [noun] The dispersion of the Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian captivity (6th century B.C.E.). | [noun] (by extension) Any similar dispersion. | [noun] (collective) A group so dispersed, especially Jews outside of the land of Israel. DIASTEMA (11) [noun] A gap or space between two adjacent teeth, especially the upper front incisors (in humans). | [noun] Any abnormal space, fissure, or cleft in an organ or part of the body. | [noun] The modified protoplasm at the equator of a cell, existing before mitotic division. DICENTRA (11) [noun] Any of the plant genus Dicentra. DICHASIA (14) [noun] A cymose inflorescence with all branches below the terminal flower in regular opposite pairs. DIPLEGIA (12) [noun] Paralysis that affects symmetrically opposed parts of the body. DIPLOPIA (13) [noun] An ophthalmologic condition where one perceives two images; double vision. DJELLABA (18) [noun] A loose-fitting, ankle-length hooded robe worn by men in North Africa. DRACAENA (11) [noun] Any of the genus Dracaena of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers. DULCIANA (11) [noun] An organ stop with a sweet tone. DULCINEA (11) DYSLEXIA (19) [noun] A learning disability characterized by reading and writing difficulties. DYSPNOEA (14) [noun] Difficult or labored respiration; shortness of breath. DYSTAXIA (19) DYSTOCIA (14) [noun] A slow or difficult labour or delivery. DYSTONIA (12) [noun] A disabling neurological disorder in which prolonged and repetitive contractions of muscles cause jerking, twisting movements and abnormal postures of the body DYSTOPIA (14) [noun] A vision of a future that is a corrupted (usually beyond recognition) utopian society. | [noun] A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living. | [noun] Anatomical tissue that is not found in its usual place. EARTHPEA (13) ECCLESIA (12) EFFLUVIA (17) [noun] A gaseous or vaporous emission, especially a foul-smelling one. | [noun] A condition causing the shedding of hair. EGOMANIA (11) [noun] Excessive vanity, pride or arrogance; self-importance. EMPANADA (13) [noun] Any of a variety of stuffed pastries found in Spanish and Latin American cuisine. ENCAENIA (10) [noun] A festival held to mark the anniversary of the dedication of a church or temple; (especially), of the Temple at Jerusalem. | [noun] The annual commemoration service of founders and benefactors of Oxford University. ENDAMEBA (13) ENDOSTEA (9) ENIGMATA (11) ENTAMEBA (12) [noun] Any of many parasitic amoebas, of the genus Entamoeba, that cause dysentery etc. EPENDYMA (16) [noun] The thin membrane of glial cells lining the ventricles of the brain and the central canal of the spinal cord. EPHEMERA (15) [noun] Objects that are designed to be short-lived. | [noun] (library science) Published single-sheet or single page documents which are meant to be thrown away after one use. | [noun] (by extension) Transitory audiovisual matter not intended to be retained or preserved. EPICEDIA (13) [noun] An elegy; an ode to someone deceased. EPIFAUNA (13) [noun] The benthic fauna, i.e. the collection of sea animals living on the seafloor. EPIMYSIA (15) EPOPOEIA (12) EQUISETA (17) [noun] The horsetail (plant of genus Equisetum) ERYTHEMA (16) [noun] Abnormal redness and inflammation of the skin, due to vasodilation. | [noun] Skin redness from sunburn or chemical irritation ESTANCIA (10) [noun] A large rural estate in Latin America; a kind of ranch. ESTHESIA (11) ETCETERA (10) EUPEPSIA (12) [noun] Good digestion. EUPHORIA (13) [noun] An excited state of joy; a feeling of intense happiness. EXONUMIA (17) FANEGADA (13) FANTASIA (11) [noun] A form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics; specifically, one combining a number of well-known musical pieces. | [noun] (by extension) Any work which is unstructured or comprises other works of different genres or styles. | [noun] A traditional festival of the Berbers of the Maghreb (in northwest Africa) featuring exhibitions of horsemanship. FENESTRA (11) [noun] An opening in a body, sometimes with a membrane. FETERITA (11) FIBRILLA (13) FLABELLA (13) FLAGELLA (12) [noun] In protists, a long, whiplike membrane-enclosed organelle used for locomotion or feeding. | [noun] In bacteria, a long, whiplike proteinaceous appendage, used for locomotion. | [noun] A whip FLOTILLA (11) [noun] A small fleet of warships (usually of the same class), or a fleet of small ships. FOCACCIA (17) [noun] A flatbread similar in style, composition, and texture to modern pizza doughs and topped with herbs, cheese and other products. Focaccia typically consists of high-gluten flour, oil, water, sugar, salt and yeast. | [noun] A sandwich made with this type of bread. FORAMINA (13) [noun] An opening, an orifice; a short passage. FRITTATA (11) [noun] A form of omelette in which vegetables, cheese etc are mixed into the eggs and cooked together. FURCRAEA (13) GALABIYA (14) GALLERIA (9) [noun] An indoor area, or covered courtyard, containing shops. GAMBUSIA (13) [noun] Any of several live-bearing freshwater fish, of the genus Gambusia, that feed on the larva of mosquitos and are used to control them. GAMMADIA (14) GARDENIA (10) [noun] Any of various tropical evergreen small trees or shrubs, of the genus Gardenia, having glossy leaves and white flowers. | [noun] The flower of these plants. GASTRAEA (9) GASTRULA (9) [noun] A stage in the development of embryos of most animals consisting of a three-layered sac of ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm. GELSEMIA (11) GERARDIA (10) GESNERIA (9) GLABELLA (11) [noun] The space between the eyebrows and above the nose. | [noun] The axial protuberance on the cephalon of certain arthropods (especially trilobites). GLADIOLA (10) GLAUCOMA (13) [noun] An eye disease or disorder that is defined as a characteristic optic neuropathy, or disease of the optic nerve, possibly, if untreated, leading to damage of the optic disc of the eye and resultant visual field loss due to lack of communication between the retina and the brain, which can lead to blindness. GLIOMATA (11) [noun] A tumour that arises from glial cells in the brain or spinal cord GLOSSINA (9) GLOXINIA (16) [noun] Any of several South American plants (of the genus Gloxinia or Sinningia) that have showy, colourful flowers GOLCONDA (12) GOLGOTHA (13) GUERILLA (9) [noun] A soldier in a small independent group, fighting against the government or regular forces by surprise raids. | [noun] A non-official war carried out by small independent groups; a guerrilla war. GYMKHANA (21) [noun] A competition where riders and horses display a range of skills and aptitudes. | [noun] A place of public resort for athletic games, etc. | [noun] A meeting for such sports. GYMNASIA (14) [noun] A large room or building for indoor sports. | [noun] A type of secondary school in some European countries which typically prepares students for university. | [noun] A public place or building where Ancient Greek youths took exercise, with running and wrestling grounds, baths, and halls for conversation. GYNAECEA (14) [noun] The women's quarters in a household, especially of ancient Greece or Rome. | [noun] Establishment in Rome where female workers made clothing and furniture for royalty. GYNAECIA (14) GYNOECIA (14) [noun] The pistils of a flower considered as a group HABANERA (13) [noun] A style of music from Cuba. | [noun] A dance performed to this music. HACIENDA (14) [noun] A large homestead in a ranch or estate usually in places where Colonial Spanish culture has had architectural influence. HAMARTIA (13) [noun] The tragic flaw of the protagonist in a literary tragedy. | [noun] Sin. HAPHTARA (16) HAPLOPIA (15) HATTERIA (11) HEMATOMA (15) [noun] A swelling of blood, usually clotted, which forms as a result of broken blood vessels. HEMIOLIA (13) HEPATICA (15) [noun] Medicines to treat the liver. | [noun] Any of the herbaceous plants in the genus Hepatica of the buttercup family, notably the common hepatica. HEPATOMA (15) [noun] A cancer originating in the liver. HERBARIA (13) [noun] A collection of dried plants or parts of plants. | [noun] A building or institution where such a collection is kept. HIRAGANA (12) [noun] The main syllabary for the Japanese language, used to represent native Japanese words, including particles, and when kanji is used, to represent verb and adjective endings. | [noun] A letter of this syllabary. HOSPITIA (13) HYPHEMIA (21) HYPONOIA (16) HYPOPNEA (18) HYSTERIA (14) [noun] A condition where the patient has neurological symptoms such as numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits, but without any neurological explanation. | [noun] Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic. | [noun] A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause. ICEKHANA (17) INSIGNIA (9) [noun] A patch or other object that indicates a person's official or military rank, or membership in a group or organization. | [noun] A symbol or token of personal power, status, or office, or of an official body of government or jurisdiction. | [noun] A mark or token by which anything is known. INSOMNIA (10) [noun] A sleeping disorder that is known for its symptoms of unrest and the inability to sleep. INTARSIA (8) [noun] A decorative form of Italian wood inlaying. | [noun] A knitted design resembling a mosaic. ISCHEMIA (15) [noun] Local disturbance in blood circulation due to mechanical obstruction of the blood supply (vasoconstriction, thrombosis or embolism). JAPONICA (19) [noun] Any of several plants originally native to Japan. JAVELINA (18) [noun] The peccary, especially the collared peccary. JIPIJAPA (26) KALYPTRA (17) KAMAAINA (14) KATAKANA (16) [noun] A Japanese syllabary used when writing words borrowed from foreign languages other than Chinese, specific names of plants and animals and other jargon, onomatopoeia, or to emphasize a word or phrase. Also used to write the Ainu language. | [noun] A character thereof. KATCHINA (17) KAVAKAVA (22) KERATOMA (14) KIELBASA (14) [noun] A spicy, smoked sausage of a particular kind. | [noun] Penis. LABRUSCA (12) [noun] The fox grape (Vitis labrusca). LAVALAVA (14) LEUCEMIA (12) LEUKEMIA (14) [noun] A type of malignancy affecting the blood cells or blood-forming tissues. | [noun] Any specific form or type of cancer of the blood-forming tissues. LEVODOPA (14) [noun] The levorotatory form of dopa, used to treat Parkinson's disease. LIPOMATA (12) [noun] A nonmalignant tumor comprising fat cells. LITHEMIA (13) LYMPHOMA (20) [noun] A malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue. MAGNESIA (11) [noun] Magnesium oxide MAGNOLIA (11) [noun] A tree or shrub in any species of the genus Magnolia, many with large flowers and simple leaves. | [noun] The flower of a magnolia tree. | [noun] A native or resident of the American state of Mississippi. MAHARAJA (20) [noun] A Hindu monarch ranking above a raja, an emperor. MAIOLICA (12) [noun] Alternative form of majolica 2. MAJOLICA (19) [noun] Earthenware decorated with coloured lead glazes applied directly to an unglazed body. | [noun] Earthenware coated with opaque white tin glaze ornamented with metal oxide colour(s). MALAROMA (12) MALVASIA (13) [noun] A variety of grape, originally from the region of the Aegean, now used to make malmsey wine. MAMALIGA (13) MAMMILLA (14) [noun] The nipple. MANDIOCA (13) MANTILLA (10) [noun] A lace veil of Spanish origin worn over a woman's hair and shoulders. | [noun] A woman's light cloak or cape made of silk, velvet, lace, or other material. MANTISSA (10) [noun] A minor addition to a text. | [noun] The part of a common logarithm after the decimal point, the fractional part of a logarithm. | [noun] The significand; that part of a floating-point number or number in scientific notation that contains its significant digits. MANUBRIA (12) [noun] The broad, upper part of the sternum. | [noun] The tube extending from the central underside of a jellyfish and ending in a mouth. | [noun] A knob or handle that controls the stops of an organ. MARCHESA (15) [noun] An Italian marchioness. MARINARA (10) [noun] A marinara sauce. | [adjective] Prepared with tomatoes, or in a tomato sauce. | [adjective] Of pasta: In a seafood sauce. Of pizza: With seafood topping. MARIPOSA (12) MARSUPIA (12) [noun] The external pouch in which female marsupials rear and feed the young. | [noun] A brood pouch in some fishes, crustaceans and insects in the family Monophlebidae. MAUSOLEA (10) [noun] A large stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs. | [noun] (by extension) A gloomy, usually large room or building. MAZAEDIA (20) MAZOURKA (23) MELANOMA (12) [noun] A dark-pigmented, usually malignant tumor arising from a melanocyte and occurring most commonly in the skin. MELODICA (13) [noun] A free-reed keyboard wind instrument. MENSTRUA (10) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) The menses; menstrual discharge. | [noun] A solvent. | [noun] Any liquid medium. MESHUGGA (15) [adjective] Crazy, mad, senseless, insane MESOGLEA (11) MIASMATA (12) MILIARIA (10) [noun] A rash caused by blocked, malfunctioning, or underdeveloped sweat glands. MONSTERA (10) [noun] Any of the plants of the genus Monstera. MOUSSAKA (14) [noun] A dish consisting of layers of minced lamb or beef, sliced aubergine (eggplant) or potatoes, tomatoes and béchamel sauce, baked in the oven. MOVIEOLA (13) MOZZETTA (28) [noun] A short cape worn by some Catholic clergy. MRIDANGA (12) MYCETOMA (17) [noun] Chronic subcutaneous inflammation caused by infection with certain bacteria or fungi. MYOTONIA (13) [noun] A symptom of several muscular disorders characterized by the slow relaxation of the muscles after voluntary contraction or electrical stimulation. MYXEDEMA (23) [noun] A form of cutaneous and dermal edema that is secondary to increased deposition of connective tissue components in subcutaneous tissue. MYXOMATA (22) [noun] A tumor of primitive connective tissue. NONQUOTA (17) OCCIPITA (14) OEDEMATA (11) OITICICA (12) OLIGURIA (9) [noun] A decreased production in the volume of urine. OMNIVORA (13) OPERCULA (12) [noun] A covering flap in animals, such as a gill cover. | [noun] The lidlike portion of a moss sporangium or of a fruit that detaches to allow the dispersal of spores or seeds. | [noun] A gum flap covering (part of) a partially erupted tooth, usually a wisdom tooth. OPERETTA (10) [noun] A lighter version of opera with a frivolous story and spoken dialogue. OPUSCULA (12) [noun] An opuscule; a short work. PALESTRA (10) [noun] A public area in ancient Greece and Rome dedicated to the teaching and practice of wrestling and other sports; a wrestling school, a gymnasium. | [noun] An arena for literal or figurative combat; a battlefield. PALLADIA (11) [noun] A safeguard. PALPEBRA (14) PANATELA (10) [noun] A long thin cigar. PANCETTA (12) [noun] A cured belly or pork; bacon. PANETELA (10) PANMIXIA (19) [noun] A situation in which an individual is just as likely to mate with another randomly chosen individual as any other in the population. | [noun] The cessation of natural selection, as on a useless organ. PANORAMA (12) [noun] An unbroken view of an entire surrounding area. | [noun] A picture or series of pictures representing a continuous scene. | [noun] A comprehensive survey. PARABOLA (12) [noun] The conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent plane to the cone; the locus of points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and line (the directrix). | [noun] The explicit drawing of a parallel between two essentially dissimilar things, especially with a moral or didactic purpose. A parable. PARANOEA (10) PARANOIA (10) [noun] A psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution, conspiracy and perceived threat against the person, often associated with false accusations and general mistrust of others | [noun] Extreme, irrational distrust of others. PARHELIA (13) [noun] A bright spot in the sky due to the refraction of the sun’s image by ice crystals. | [noun] A reflection or image. PELLAGRA (11) [noun] A disease characterised by skin lesions and mental confusion, primarily caused by a niacin deficiency. PENUMBRA (14) [noun] A partially shaded area around the edges of a shadow, especially an eclipse. | [noun] A region around the edge of a sunspot, darker than the sun's surface but lighter than the middle of the sunspot. | [noun] An area of uncertainty or intermediacy between two mutually exclusive states or categories. PEPONIDA (13) PERFECTA (15) [noun] A kind of bet wherein the first and second-place finishers must be predicted in the correct order. PETECHIA (15) [noun] A small spot, especially on an organ, caused by bleeding underneath the skin. PHELONIA (13) PHOTOPIA (15) PIASSABA (12) PIASSAVA (13) [noun] A fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia piassaba), formerly used in making brooms and for other purposes. | [noun] Either of these two trees. PIGNOLIA (11) PIZZERIA (28) [noun] A restaurant that bakes and sells pizzas. PLACENTA (12) [noun] A vascular organ in mammals, except monotremes and marsupials, present only in the female during gestation. It supplies food and oxygen from the mother to the foetus, and passes back waste. It is implanted in the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth. | [noun] It is an endocrine gland which secret human chorionic gonadotropin hormone.The HCG if detected in woman's urine then the pregnancy is confirmed. | [noun] In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop. PLANARIA (10) PLETHORA (13) [noun] (usually followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance. | [noun] An excess of red blood cells or bodily humours. PLUMERIA (12) [noun] Frangipani POLLINIA (10) [noun] A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids, which is dispersed as a single unit during pollination. POLYGALA (14) POLYPNEA (15) POLYURIA (13) [noun] The production of an abnormally large amount of urine; one symptom of diabetes. POSTCAVA (15) PRESIDIA (11) PROGERIA (11) [noun] An extremely rare genetic condition wherein symptoms resembling aspects of aging are manifested at an early age. PROTOZOA (19) [noun] Any of the diverse group of eukaryotes, of the phylum Protozoa, that are primarily unicellular, existing singly or aggregating into colonies, are usually nonphotosynthetic, and are often classified further into phyla according to their capacity for and means of motility, as by pseudopods, flagella, or cilia. | [noun] A protozoan. PRUNELLA (10) [noun] A member of the genus Prunella of herbaceous plants, the allheals. | [noun] Any of various diseases characterised by inflammation of the mouth or throat. | [noun] A smooth worsted or silk fabric, generally black, formerly used for making shoes and clergymen's gowns. PSORALEA (10) PTERYGIA (14) PUTAMINA (12) [noun] A round structure located at the base of the forebrain, regulating movement and learning. | [noun] A hard, shell-like covering. | [noun] The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit; endocarp. PYCNIDIA (16) PYODERMA (16) [noun] An infection of the skin by pyogenic bacteria PYORRHEA (16) [noun] An inflammation of the gums in which the teeth become loose; chronic periodontitis. | [noun] A discharge of pus. QINDARKA (22) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Albanian lek QUADRIGA (19) QUILLAIA (17) QUILLAJA (24) QUINELLA (17) [noun] A form of bet in which the bettor predicts the first two finishers in a race, without concern for the order of finishing. | [verb] To have two team members, horses, etc., finish first and second in the same event. QUINIELA (17) RACHILLA (13) RADIALIA (9) RENDZINA (18) [noun] A dark soil that sometimes develops under grass on limestone and chalk. RESPONSA (10) [noun] A body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed to them. RETICULA (10) [noun] The reticular formation. | [noun] A network. | [noun] A pattern of interconnected objects. RETINULA (8) RHIZOBIA (22) [noun] Any of various bacteria, of the genus Rhizobium, that form nodules on the roots of legumes and fix nitrogen. ROSTELLA (8) RUTABAGA (11) [noun] The swede, or Swedish turnip; the European plant Brassica napus var. napobrassica | [noun] The edible root of this plant SACRARIA (10) [noun] In Ancient Rome, a place where sacred objects were kept, either in a temple (the adytum) or in a house (holding the penates) | [noun] The area surrounding the altar of a Christian church; the sanctuary or piscina. Sometimes specifically a drain directly to the earth, perhaps including reference to a basin, for washing vessels from consecration. | [noun] The complex sacrum of any bird. SALSILLA (8) SAPREMIA (12) SARMENTA (10) SASTRUGA (9) SAYONARA (11) [noun] An utterance of sayonara, the wishing of farewell to someone. | [interjection] (especially used when referring to Japan) Goodbye, adieu. SCABIOSA (12) SCHEMATA (15) [noun] An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a body schema). | [noun] A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of the columns of each table, and the data type and other attributes of each column. | [noun] (markup languages) A formal description of data, data types, and data file structures, such as XML schemas for XML files. SCIATICA (12) [noun] Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, characterised by pain radiating down through the buttocks and the back of the thigh. SCLEROMA (12) [noun] Induration of the tissues | [noun] Rhinoscleroma SCOLIOMA (12) SCOTOPIA (12) SCROFULA (13) [noun] A form of tuberculosis, most common in children, tending to cause enlarged and degenerated lymph nodes, especially in the neck, and often chronic, intractable skin inflammation as well. SCUTELLA (10) [noun] A scutellum. | [noun] Any of several shield-shaped structures in insects, grasses etc SEMICOMA (14) SEMIGALA (11) SEMOLINA (10) [noun] Coarse grains produced at an intermediate stage of wheat flour milling. | [noun] Such grains, usually from hard wheat, used in the preparation of pasta, couscous and various sweet dishes. | [noun] A soft dessert made by boiling a mixture of semolina, sugar and flavourings in milk. SENORITA (8) [noun] A young, unmarried woman in or from a Hispanophone community. | [noun] A small species of wrasse, Oxyjulis californica. SENSILLA (8) [noun] Any of several sensory organs in some arthropods SENSORIA (8) [noun] The entire sensory apparatus of an organism. | [noun] The central part of a nervous system that receives and coordinates all stimuli. | [noun] The brain or mind in relation to the senses. SEPTARIA (10) [noun] A flattened concretionary nodule, usually of limestone, intersected within by cracks which are often filled with calcite, barite, or other minerals. SERENATA (8) [noun] A type of baroque cantata performed outdoors, in the evening, with mixed vocal and instrumental forces SHIGELLA (12) [noun] A bacterium in the genus Shigella, some kinds of which may cause a form of dysentery called shigellosis. SHILLALA (11) SILICULA (10) SIMARUBA (12) SINFONIA (11) [noun] A symphony. | [noun] A piece or music serving as an overture, interlude or ritornello. | [noun] A small symphony orchestra. SONATINA (8) [noun] A musical composition resembling a sonata but shorter or simpler. SPIRILLA (10) [noun] Any of various aerobic bacteria of the genus Spirillum, having an elongated spiral form and bearing a tuft of flagella. | [noun] Any of various other spiral-shaped microorganisms. SPOROZOA (19) STAPELIA (10) [noun] Any of the genus Stapelia of low-growing succulent plants, predominantly from South Africa, and often giving off an odour of rotten flesh. STEMMATA (12) [noun] A family tree or recorded genealogy | [noun] In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts | [noun] One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods STERIGMA (11) [noun] A slim projecting part of the basidium of some species of fungi that carries the basidiospore. | [noun] A woody projection from the tip of the leaf base in certain conifers (Picea and Tsuga). | [noun] Part of the genitalia of moths. STIGMATA (11) [noun] A mark of infamy or disgrace. | [noun] A scar or birthmark. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural stigmata) A mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion on Jesus' body, and sometimes reported to bleed periodically. STOCCATA (12) STOKESIA (12) STOMODEA (11) STOTINKA (12) [noun] A unit of currency in Bulgaria, worth one hundredth of a lev. STROBILA (10) [noun] The jointed series of segments of the body of a tapeworm, posterior to the unjointed collum. STROMATA (10) [noun] The tissue structure of an organ, etc., that serves to support it. STRONTIA (8) [noun] A pale earth composed of strontium oxide (SrO) SUBPHYLA (18) [noun] A taxonomic category below phylum and above class SUBPOENA (12) [noun] A writ requiring a defendant to appear in court to answer a plaintiff's claim. | [noun] A writ requiring someone to appear in court to give testimony. | [verb] To summon with a subpoena. SUBTOPIA (12) [noun] Sprawling suburbs, collectively. SUBURBIA (12) [noun] The suburbs and all that pertains to or characterizes them; the suburbs as represented or encapsulated by their typical qualities or characteristics. SWASTICA (13) SWASTIKA (15) [noun] A cross with arms of equal length all bent halfway along at a 90° angle to the right or to the left, used as a religious symbol by various ancient and modern civilizations, and adopted more recently (with arms angled to the right) as a symbol of National Socialism and fascism. | [noun] (fascism, history, metonym) Nazi rule. SYMPODIA (16) [noun] A pattern of branching, similar to dichotomous branching, where the axis or stem is morphologically made up of a series of superposed branches imitating a simple stem. SYMPOSIA (15) [noun] A conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations. | [noun] A drinking party in Ancient Greece, especially one with intellectual discussion. SYNCYTIA (16) [noun] A mass of cytoplasm containing many nuclei SYNERGIA (12) SYNTAGMA (14) [noun] A constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit. | [noun] An arrangement of units that together bears a meaning. | [noun] (history) A Macedonian phalanx fighting formation consisting of 256 men with long spears (sarissae). TAMANDUA (11) [noun] An anteater of the genus Tamandua. TAMBOURA (12) [noun] A type of long-necked lute-like stringed instrument found throughout the world but originating in the traditional music of India. TAPADERA (11) TEGMENTA (11) [noun] The ventral portion of the midbrain, divided from the tectum by the cerebral aqueduct and the periaqueductal grey | [noun] Containing the following nuclei: red nucleus, substantia nigra, ventral tegmental area TEGUMINA (11) TENACULA (10) [noun] A medical instrument consisting of a sharp hook attached to a handle; used mainly for taking up arteries and the like. TERATOMA (10) [noun] A benign or malignant tumour, especially of the gonads, that arises from germ cells and consists of different types of tissue such as skin, hair, or muscle. TERRARIA (8) [noun] An enclosure wherein very small animals are displayed humanely, often with some plants, in a naturalistic setting. | [noun] A partially enclosed glass container for displaying plants, especially plants that need high humidity. TERRELLA (8) THERIACA (13) THIOTEPA (13) THIOUREA (11) [noun] Any of a class of compounds based on NH2-CS-NH2, formally derived from urea by replacing the oxygen atom with sulfur, used in photography as a fixing agent, in inorganic synthesis, and in medicine as an antithyroid drug. TITHONIA (11) TOKONOMA (14) [noun] A recess in a domestic interior in which a hanging scroll and a flower arrangement is displayed TORTILLA (8) [noun] (Mexican cuisine) A flat round bread made out of cornmeal or flour. In Mexican cuisine they are often served with a filling or topping such as frijoles "beans", carne "meat", salsa "sauce", sour cream and cheese; in the latter case they are called quesadillas. | [noun] (Spanish cuisine) Spanish omelette; an omelette containing potatoes and onions. TOXAEMIA (17) [noun] Blood poisoning; adverse reaction to toxic byproducts of systemic infection. TRACHOMA (15) [noun] An infectious disease of the eyelid caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. TRAPEZIA (19) [noun] A four-sided polygon with two sides parallel | [noun] A four-sided polygon with no parallel sides and no sides equal; a simple convex irregular quadrilateral. | [noun] The trapezium bone of the wrist. TRAUMATA (10) [noun] Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident. | [noun] An emotional wound leading to psychological injury. | [noun] An event that causes great distress. TRICHINA (13) [noun] Any of several parasitic roundworms, of the genus Trichinella, that infect the intestines and cause trichinosis TRIENNIA (8) [noun] A period of three years. TRIFECTA (13) [noun] A bet in which the bettor must select the first three placegetters of a race in the order in which they finish. | [noun] The attainment of three important achievements, qualities, etc. | [noun] (by extension) A set of three related things, often things that cause problems. TRIFORIA (11) [noun] The gallery of arches above the side-aisle vaulting in the nave of a church. TRIHEDRA (12) [noun] A geometric figure composed of three planes meeting at a single vertex. TRIPTYCA (15) TRISTEZA (17) TROCHLEA (13) [noun] A structure resembling a pulley. TSAREVNA (11) TSARITZA (17) TZAREVNA (20) TZARITZA (26) ULTIMATA (10) [noun] A final statement of terms or conditions made by one party to another, especially one that expresses a threat of reprisal or war. UMBRELLA (12) [noun] Cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun. | [noun] Generally, anything that provides protection. | [noun] Something that covers a wide range of concepts, purposes, groups, etc. UNDERSEA (9) [adjective] Existing, relating to, or made for use beneath the sea. UNGUENTA (9) UREDINIA (9) URINEMIA (10) UROPYGIA (14) VACCINIA (15) [noun] An infection of cowpox. | [noun] (by extension) The virus which causes this infection. VALENCIA (13) VELAMINA (13) [noun] A covering membrane or velum | [noun] A spongy, usually pale, multiseriate epidermis (i.e. consisting of multiple layers of cells) covering the roots of some kinds of plants, especially plant species with an epiphytic or semi-epiphytic habit. Examples include various orchid and Clivia species VENDETTA (12) [noun] A bitter, destructive feud, normally between two families, clans or factions, in which each injury or slaying is revenged: a blood feud. | [noun] (often preceded by personal) A motivational grudge against a person or faction, which may or may not be reciprocated; the state of having it in for someone. VERATRIA (11) VERONICA (13) [noun] The image of Jesus's face believed to have been made on the cloth with which St Veronica wiped his face as he went to be crucified; or the cloth used for this. | [noun] A circular swinging movement of the cape, used to avoid the bull. | [noun] A flower of the genus Veronica, usually having blue petals. VERTEBRA (13) [noun] Any of the small bones which make up the backbone. VESICULA (13) VESTIGIA (12) VIBRISSA (13) [noun] Any of the tactile whiskers on the nose of an animal such as a cat | [noun] Any similar feather near the mouth of some birds VICTORIA (13) [noun] A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front. VIEWDATA (15) [noun] An information retrieval service of the 1970s and 1980s permitting subscribers to access a remote database and receive requested data on a video display. VINIFERA (14) VIRTUOSA (11) VISCACHA (18) [noun] Any of the several South American rodents, native to the Andes, of the genera Lagidium and Lagostomus, within family Chinchillidae. VIVIPARA (16) VIZCACHA (27) WAHCONDA (17) WEIGELIA (12) WISTARIA (11) [noun] Any of several woody climbing vines, of the genus Wisteria, native to the East Asian countries of China, Korea, and Japan and the eastern United States. WISTERIA (11) [noun] Any of several woody climbing vines, of the genus Wisteria, native to the East Asian countries of China, Korea, and Japan and the eastern United States. XANTHOMA (20) [noun] A small, yellow nodule, rich in cholesterol and other lipids, that occurs in the skin, often near a joint YOKOZUNA (24) [noun] The highest rank of sumo wrestler, above ozeki; grand champion. | [noun] A person holding the rank, either competing at the rank or retired after having achieved it. YTTERBIA (13) ZARZUELA (26) [noun] A form of Spanish opera having spoken dialogue and usually a comic subject. ZASTRUGA (18) ZIRCONIA (19) [noun] The oxide of zirconium, obtained as a white powder, and possessing both acid and basic properties. On account of its infusibility, and brilliant luminosity when incandescent, it is used as an ingredient of sticks for the Drummond light. ZOOGLOEA (18) ZOOMANIA (19) ZYGOMATA (23) [noun] The cheekbone.

ACETABULA (13) [noun] The bony cup of the pelvis which receives the head of the femur. | [noun] The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body. | [noun] A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals. ACHALASIA (14) [noun] A neuromuscular problem where a ring of muscles is unable to fully relax. ADENOMATA (12) [noun] A benign tumour of the epithelium arising from or resembling a gland. ALFILARIA (12) ALGARROBA (12) AMBLYOPIA (18) [noun] Dimness or blurring of the eyesight due to a fault in transmission of signals to the brain from an otherwise healthy eye. | [noun] A disorder of visual development in which the brain partially or wholly ignores input from one or both eyes. AMBULACRA (15) [noun] (of an echinoderm) A row of pores for the protrusion of appendages such as tube feet. AMETROPIA (13) AMYOTONIA (14) [noun] A condition characterized by abnormal muscle weakness or lack of muscle tone, particularly in infants. ANALGESIA (10) [noun] The inability to feel pain | [noun] Medication that acts to relieve pain ANAPLASIA (11) [noun] A reversion of differentiation in cells that is characteristic of malignancy in tumours. ANCHOVETA (17) [noun] A species of anchovy, Engraulis ringens, from the southern Pacific. ANDROECIA (12) [noun] The set of a flower's stamens. ANDROMEDA (13) [noun] Any shrub of the genus Pieris (family Ericaceae), having leathery leaves and small flowers. | [noun] Bog rosemary. ANGIOMATA (12) [noun] A benign tumor made up of small blood vessels or lymph vessels. ANHEDONIA (13) [noun] The inability to feel pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable, such as exercise, hobbies, music, sexual activities or social interactions. APOCRYPHA (21) [noun] Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority (formerly also used attributively). APOTHECIA (16) [noun] Plural of apothecium, a cup-shaped or disk-shaped fruiting body in lichens and fungi that contains asci. AQUILEGIA (19) [noun] Any member of the genus Aquilegia. ARAUCARIA (11) [noun] An individual plant (tree) of the genus Araucaria. ARGUMENTA (12) ARTEMISIA (11) [noun] Any of many aromatic flowering plants of the genus Artemisia, including wormwood, sagebrush, and tarragon. ASAFETIDA (13) [noun] A resinous gum from the stem and roots of genus Ferula, especially Ferula assa-foetida, having a strong, unpleasant smell, with culinary and medical uses. ASCOGONIA (12) [noun] Plural of ascogonium; the female reproductive structures in ascomycete fungi that develop into asci after fertilization. AUDITORIA (10) [noun] A large room for public meetings or performances. | [noun] (in a theater, etc.) The space where the audience is located. AYAHUASCA (17) [noun] A giant vine native to South America (especially Banisteriopsis caapi), noted for its psychotropic properties. | [noun] Any of various psychoactive infusions or decoctions prepared from this vine. BALACLAVA (16) [noun] A warm cap shielding the neck and head, often made out of wool. | [noun] A ski mask with holes for the eyes and, sometimes, the nose and mouth, which may be rolled up and worn like a toque or pulled over the face for greater protection. BALALAIKA (15) [noun] A plucked stringed instrument with a triangular body, short neck and three strings, of Russian origin. BALLERINA (11) [noun] A female ballet dancer | [noun] The star female ballet performer in the company | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) a male ballet dancer BARRACUDA (14) [noun] Any large marine fish of the genus Sphyraena that have elongated bodies, a projecting lower jaw, displaying prominent fang-shaped teeth, and are aggressive predators. | [noun] One who uses harsh or predatory means to compete. BILHARZIA (23) [noun] The parasitic disease schistosomiasis BOUSOUKIA (15) [noun] A Greek stringed musical instrument similar to a mandolin, with a pear-shaped body and paired metal strings. BOUZOUKIA (24) [noun] Plural of bouzouki, a Greek stringed musical instrument similar to a mandolin. CABALETTA (13) [noun] A short, rhythmically repetitive aria. CAFETERIA (14) [noun] A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat | [noun] A dining area in an institution where meals may be purchased (as above), provided, or brought in from elsewhere CALENDULA (12) [noun] Any plant of the genus Calendula, with yellow or orange flowers, often called marigolds. CAMARILLA (13) [noun] A secret, usually sinister, group of conspiring advisors close to the leadership; a cabal. CAMPANULA (15) [noun] Any plant of the genus Campanula. CANTILENA (11) [noun] A vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style. CARAMBOLA (15) [noun] A tree species native of southern Asia, Averrhoa carambola. | [noun] The fruit of this tree, more commonly known as star fruit. | [noun] A yellow colour, like that of a carambola. CARBONARA (13) [noun] A thick Italian pasta sauce, made with guanciale, grated cheese, beaten egg yolks and pepper. | [noun] (by extension) A spaghetti dish made using such a sauce. CARCINOMA (15) [noun] An invasive malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue that tends to metastasize to other areas of the body. CARNIVORA (14) [noun] An order of carnivorous mammals that includes cats, dogs, bears, and seals. CASUARINA (11) [noun] Any of several trees, of the genus Casuarina, that have segmented stems; especially the ironwood and beefwood CATAMENIA (13) [noun] The female period; menstrual discharge. CATAPHORA (16) [noun] The use of a pronoun, or other linguistic unit, before the noun phrase to which it refers, sometimes used for rhetorical effect. CATATONIA (11) [noun] A severe psychiatric condition, often associated with schizophrenia, characterized by a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation. | [noun] A frozen, unresponsive state, as of electronic equipment. CAUSALGIA (12) [noun] An intense burning pain. CENTAUREA (11) [noun] Any of the flowering plants in or formerly in the genus Centaurium. | [noun] Any of diverse other plants: CEREBELLA (13) [noun] Part of the hindbrain in vertebrates. In humans it lies between the brainstem and the cerebrum. It plays an important role in sensory perception, motor output, balance and posture. CHELICERA (16) [noun] Either of the prehensile claws found on the proboscis of chelicerates (horseshoe crabs, sea spiders and arachnids). CHERIMOYA (19) [noun] A subtropical tree, Annona cherimola, native to mountainous areas of South America. | [noun] A conical fruit with white flesh from that tree. CHIASMATA (16) [noun] A crossing of two nerves, ligaments etc. | [noun] The contact point between the two chromatids of a chromosome during meiosis. CHIRIMOYA (19) [noun] A subtropical tree, Annona cherimola, native to mountainous areas of South America. | [noun] A conical fruit with white flesh from that tree. CHLAMYDIA (20) [noun] Any of several common, often asymptomatic, sexually transmitted diseases caused by the microorganism Chlamydia trachomatis. | [noun] Any of various coccoid microorganisms of the genus Chlamydia that are pathogenic to humans and other animals. CHLORELLA (14) [noun] Any single-celled green alga, of the genus Chlorella, found especially in stagnant water; now produced commercially as a food supplement. CIGUATERA (12) [noun] A foodborne poisoning in humans caused by eating marine species whose flesh is contaminated with ciguatoxin. CINERARIA (11) [noun] A place or receptacle for depositing the ashes of cremated people. | [noun] Any of the genus Cineraria of flowering plants in the sunflower family. | [noun] Any of the garden flowers in the species Pericallis × hybrida (formerly classified in the genus Cineraria) CLEPSYDRA (17) [noun] A water clock, especially as used in the ancient world. CLINTONIA (11) [noun] A genus of plants in the lily family, native to North America, characterized by white or yellow flowers and blue berries. COELOMATA (13) [noun] A fluid-filled cavity within the body of an animal. The digestive system is suspended within the cavity, which is lined by a tissue called the peritoneum. COGNOMINA (14) [noun] Plural of cognomen; surnames or family names, especially in ancient Rome. | [noun] Names or nicknames by which a person is known. COLLOQUIA (20) [noun] A colloquy; a meeting for discussion. | [noun] An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting. | [noun] An address to an academic meeting or seminar. COLUMELLA (13) [noun] Any of various small structures in plants or animals that are columnar in shape. | [noun] The skin at the end of the septum which separates the nostrils. | [noun] (comparative anatomy) In birds, reptiles, and amphibians, the small bone which carries vibration from the tympanum to the inner ear. COMPENDIA (16) [noun] A short, complete summary; an abstract. | [noun] A list or collection of various items. CONDYLOMA (17) [noun] A wartlike growth on the skin or a mucous membrane, caused by certain types of HPV viruses, usually occurring in the genital area CONSORTIA (11) [noun] An association or combination of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of engaging in a joint venture. | [noun] A similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions or organizations. | [noun] An association or society. CORBICULA (15) [noun] A bee's pollen basket; in honeybees and close relatives, the corbicula are located on the outer (lateral) surface of the hind tibia. CRUSTACEA (13) [noun] Any arthropod of the subphylum Crustacea, including lobsters, crabs, shrimp, barnacles and woodlice. CUADRILLA (12) [noun] The team which supports the matador. CURRICULA (13) [noun] The set of courses, coursework, and their content, offered at a school or university. | [noun] A racecourse; a place for running. CYCLORAMA (18) [noun] A display consisting of a continuous series of pictures placed on the walls of a circular room so as to appear in natural perspective by a person standing in the middle; a circular or semi-circular display. | [noun] A large curtain or wall, often concave, hung upstage, in a theatre. DECAHEDRA (16) [noun] A polyhedron with ten faces. DIARRHOEA (13) [noun] A gastrointestinal disorder characterized by frequent and very fluid or watery bowel movements. | [noun] The watery or very soft excrement that comes from such bowel movements. DICHONDRA (16) DIPLOMATA (14) DOCUDRAMA (15) [noun] A type of drama (a film, a television show, or a play) that combines elements of documentary and drama, to some extent showing real events and to some extent using actors performing recreations of documented events. DYSCRASIA (15) [noun] (ancient usage) Imbalance of the four bodily humors (blood, black and yellow bile, phlegm) that was thought to cause disease. | [noun] (modern usage) Any bodily disorder, especially regarding the blood. DYSPEPSIA (17) [noun] Any mild disorder of digestion, characterised by stomach pain, discomfort, heartburn and nausea, often following a meal. DYSPHAGIA (19) [noun] Difficulty in swallowing. DYSPHASIA (18) [noun] Loss of or deficiency in the power to use or understand language as a result of injury or disease of the brain. DYSPHONIA (18) [noun] A difficulty in producing vocal sounds. DYSPHORIA (18) [noun] A state of feeling unwell or unhappy; a feeling of emotional and mental discomfort and suffering from restlessness, malaise, depression or anxiety. DYSPLASIA (15) [noun] Abnormal development of cells or tissue, often a precancerous stage of growth. ECHEVERIA (17) [noun] Any member of the large genus Echeveria of succulents, many species of which are popular as garden plants. ECHOLALIA (14) [noun] The immediate, involuntary, and repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another. | [noun] An infant's repetitive imitation of vocal sounds spoken by another person, occurring naturally during childhood development. | [noun] Any apparently meaningless, repetitious noises, especially voices. ECLAMPSIA (15) [noun] A complication of pregnancy characterized by seizures and coma due to hypertension. ECTHYMATA (19) EMPHYSEMA (21) [noun] An abnormal accumulation of air or other gas in tissues, most commonly the lungs. | [noun] Pulmonary emphysema, a chronic lung disease, one type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. EMPYEMATA (18) ENCEPHALA (16) ENCHILADA (15) [noun] A Mexican dish made by wrapping a filling in a tortilla, then baking in a sauce. ENDAMOEBA (14) ENTAMOEBA (13) [noun] Any of many parasitic amoebas, of the genus Entamoeba, that cause dysentery etc. EPICARDIA (14) [noun] The layer of tissue between the pericardium and the heart. EPITHELIA (14) [noun] A membranous tissue composed of one or more layers of cells which forms the covering of most internal and external surfaces of the body and its organs: internally including the lining of vessels and other small cavities, and externally being the skin. ESOTERICA (11) [noun] Things that are esoteric; things that are impractical or specialised. EUPHORBIA (16) [noun] Any plant of the genus Euphorbia, the spurges. EXANTHEMA (21) [noun] A widespread rash usually occurring in children. EXODONTIA (17) FIBROMATA (16) [noun] A benign tumour of fibrous connective tissue. FIORITURA (12) [noun] A musical embellishment or ornamentation. FORSYTHIA (18) [noun] Any of several shrubs, of the genus Forsythia, native to Asia and Eastern Europe, that are cultivated for their yellow flowers, which bloom in early spring. FRAMBESIA (16) [noun] Yaws, the disease GENITALIA (10) [noun] External sex organs. | [noun] A collection of external sex organs. GLOCHIDIA (16) [noun] The larva or young of the mussel. | [noun] A glochid, or cactus spine. GONORRHEA (13) [noun] An STD caused by a species of bacteria (the gonococcus) that affects the mucous membrane of the genital and urinary tracts. GRANULOMA (12) [noun] An inflammatory nodule found in many diseases, consisting of histiocytes (macrophages) attempting to wall off substances they perceive as foreign but are unable to eliminate, such as certain infectious organisms as well as other materials such as suture fragments | [noun] (medicine, less specific) any small nodule GRAVAMINA (15) GUAYABERA (15) [noun] A light, open-necked, short-sleeved shirt worn by men in Latin America and the West Indies. GUERRILLA (10) [noun] A soldier in a small independent group, fighting against the government or regular forces by surprise raids. | [noun] A non-official war carried out by small independent groups; a guerrilla war. | [adjective] Relating to, using, or typical of guerrilla warfare, or its principles of small independent or non-official perpetrators. HARMONICA (16) [noun] A musical wind instrument with a series of holes for the player to blow into, each hole producing a different note | [noun] A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones. | [noun] A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers. HAUSTELLA (12) [noun] A sucking organ, in the form of a proboscis, in many insects and crustaceans HAUSTORIA (12) [noun] A root of a parasitic plant modified to take nourishment from its host. | [noun] A cellular structure, growing into or around another structure to absorb water or nutrients, such as a cotyledon. HEMATURIA (14) [noun] The presence of blood in the urine HEMELYTRA (17) HEXAHEDRA (23) [noun] A polyhedron with six faces. The regular hexahedron is the cube, and is one of the Platonic solids. HONORARIA (12) [noun] Compensation for services that do not have a predetermined value. HYBRIDOMA (20) HYDRANGEA (17) [noun] Any of several shrubs, of the genus Hydrangea, having large clusters of white, pink or blue flowers HYPANTHIA (20) [noun] The bowl-shaped part of a flower on which the sepals, petals, and stamens are borne HYPERBOLA (19) [noun] A conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane that intersects the base of the cone and is not tangent to the cone. HYPEREMIA (19) [noun] Excess of blood in a body part. HYPEROPIA (19) [noun] A disorder of the vision where the eye focusses images behind the retina instead of on it, so that distant objects can be seen better than near objects. HYPERPNEA (19) HYPOMANIA (19) [noun] A mild form of mania, especially the phase of several mood disorders characterized by euphoria or hyperactivity. HYPOTONIA (17) [noun] An abnormal loss of muscle tone. HYPOXEMIA (26) [noun] An abnormal deficiency in the concentration of oxygen in the blood, be it the partial pressure of oxygen (mm Hg), the content of oxygen (ml oxygen per dl of blood) or the per cent saturation of the blood's hemoglobin, singly or in combination. INAMORATA (11) [noun] A female lover or woman with whom one is in love; a mistress INCOGNITA (12) INFLUENZA (21) [noun] An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics. INVOLUCRA (14) IRREDENTA (10) IRRIDENTA (10) ISCHAEMIA (16) [noun] Local disturbance in blood circulation due to mechanical obstruction of the blood supply (vasoconstriction, thrombosis or embolism). JACARANDA (19) [noun] Any of several trees, of the genus Jacaranda, native to tropical South America, that have pale purple, funnel-shaped flowers. | [noun] The hard, dark wood of these trees. | [noun] A trade name for similar hardwood timber from certain species of Dalbergia, notably Dalbergia frutescens, Dalbergia nigra and Dalbergia refusa. JAMBALAYA (23) [noun] Any of various of rice-based dishes common in Louisiana Cajun or Creole cooking; most often with shrimp, oysters, chicken or ham. JUVENILIA (19) [noun] Works produced during an artist's or author's youth. KERYGMATA (19) [noun] The Apostolic proclamation of religious truths; the core teachings of Christianity taught by the early Church. LACUNARIA (11) LAMINARIA (11) LESPEDEZA (21) LEUKAEMIA (15) [noun] A type of malignancy affecting the blood cells or blood-forming tissues. | [noun] Any specific form or type of cancer of the blood-forming tissues. LOGORRHEA (13) [noun] Excessive talkativeness. | [noun] Excessive use of words in writing; prolixity. | [noun] Excessive and often uncontrollable speaking due to a mental disorder. LUMINARIA (11) MACADAMIA (16) [noun] An evergreen tree, of the genus Macadamia, native to Australia and cultivated in Hawaii. | [noun] The fruit of this tree; the macadamia nut. MALAGUENA (12) [noun] A Spanish dance, typical of Malaga, similar to a fandango MANZANITA (20) [noun] Any evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Arctostaphylos, especially Arctostaphylos manzanita, having smooth red or orange bark and stiff, twisting branches. MARGARITA (12) [noun] A cocktail made with tequila, an orange-flavoured liqueur, and lemon or lime juice, often served with salt encrusted on the rim of the glass. MARIHUANA (14) [noun] A drug smoked or ingested for euphoric effect, cannabis. | [noun] The hemp plant itself, Cannabis sativa. MARIJUANA (18) [noun] A drug smoked or ingested for euphoric effect, cannabis. | [noun] The hemp plant itself, Cannabis sativa. MATAMBALA (15) MEGAFAUNA (15) [noun] The large animals of a given region or time, considered as a group. | [noun] A treatise on such a group of large animals. MELISMATA (13) [noun] A passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text, as in Gregorian chant. MELODRAMA (14) [noun] A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. | [noun] A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks | [noun] Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion. MEMORANDA (14) [noun] A short note serving as a reminder. | [noun] A written business communication. | [noun] A brief diplomatic communication. MESENTERA (11) MESOGLOEA (12) MILITARIA (11) [noun] Military or police artifacts. MILLENNIA (11) [noun] A period of time consisting of one thousand years. | [noun] The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations). | [noun] A period of universal happiness, peace or prosperity; a utopia. MIRACIDIA (14) [noun] A free-living motile form of a trematode, covered with cilia, which settles in a mollusc intermediate host to become a sporocyst MONODRAMA (14) [noun] A play in the form of a monologue MONOMANIA (13) [noun] Excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject. | [noun] A pathological obsession with one person, thing or idea. MORATORIA (11) [noun] An authorization to a debtor, permitting temporary suspension of payments. | [noun] A suspension of an ongoing activity. MYCOFLORA (19) MYELOMATA (16) [noun] A malignant tumour arising from cells of the bone marrow, specifically plasma cells. MYOCARDIA (17) NANOTESLA (9) NATATORIA (9) NAUMACHIA (16) NEMOPHILA (16) NEOPHILIA (14) NEOPLASIA (11) [noun] The formation of new tissue | [noun] The formation of a neoplasm NEPHRIDIA (15) [noun] A tubular excretory organ in some invertebrates | [noun] The embryonic excretory organ that develops into the kidney NEURALGIA (10) [noun] An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve. NEUROGLIA (10) [noun] Glial cell NEUROMATA (11) [noun] A tumour composed of nerve cells. NICOTIANA (11) [noun] Any ornamental plant of the genus Nicotiana | [noun] Literature dealing with tobacco-smoking NOSTALGIA (10) [noun] A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness. | [noun] A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past. | [noun] Reminiscence of the speaker's childhood or younger years. OCEANARIA (11) [noun] A park where visitors can see marine mammals and/or fish. OCTAHEDRA (15) [noun] A polyhedron with eight faces; the regular octahedron has regular triangles as faces and is one of the Platonic solids. OMMATIDIA (14) [noun] One of the conical substructures which make up the eyes of invertebrates with compound eyes. ORCHESTRA (14) [noun] A large group of musicians who play together on various instruments, usually including some from strings, woodwind, brass and/or percussion; the instruments played by such a group. | [noun] A semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient Greek and Hellenistic theatres. | [noun] The area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit, immediately in front of and below the stage, sometimes (also) used by other performers. OSMETERIA (11) OSTEOMATA (11) PALAESTRA (11) [noun] A public area in ancient Greece and Rome dedicated to the teaching and practice of wrestling and other sports; a wrestling school, a gymnasium. | [noun] An arena for literal or figurative combat; a battlefield. PANJANDRA (19) PAPILLOMA (15) [noun] An epithelial tumour, usually benign, with the appearance of a papilla PARAMECIA (15) [noun] An oval-shaped protozoan organism of the genus Paramecium. PARAMENTA (13) PARAPODIA (14) [noun] Any of the paired unjointed lateral outgrowths used for locomotion by worms such as annelids. | [noun] A lateral expansion on both sides of the foot in some gastropods, often used as a swimming organ. PAULOWNIA (14) [noun] Any member of the genus Paulownia, comprising deciduous flowering trees native to Asia. PENINSULA (11) [noun] A piece of land projecting into water from a larger land mass. PENULTIMA (13) PEPEROMIA (15) [noun] Any plant of the genus Peperomia, some of which are popular houseplants PERIHELIA (14) [noun] The point in the elliptical orbit of a planet or comet etc. where it is nearest to the Sun | [noun] Perihelion PERIKARYA (18) [noun] The cell body of a neuron or of an odontoblast. PERIMYSIA (16) PERIOSTEA (11) [noun] A membrane surrounding a bone. PERITONEA (11) [noun] In mammals, the serous membrane lining the cavity of the abdomen and that is folded over the viscera. | [noun] In animals, the membrane lining the coelom cavity. PHANTASMA (16) PHENOMENA (16) [noun] A thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses; or a fact or occurrence thereof. | [noun] (by extension) A knowable thing or event (eg by inference, especially in science) | [noun] A kind or type of phenomenon (sense 1 or 2) PHILISTIA (14) PHYLLODIA (18) PLASMODIA (14) [noun] A mass of cytoplasm, containing many nuclei, created by the aggregation of amoeboid cells of slime molds during their vegetative phase. When capitalised as a proper name, Plasmodium is a genus of protozoan parasites responsible for such diseases as malaria PNEUMONIA (13) [noun] An acute or chronic inflammation of the lungs caused by viruses, bacteria or other microorganisms, or sometimes by physical or chemical irritants. POINCIANA (13) [noun] A tropical shrub with bright orange-red flowers POLYANTHA (17) POLYHEDRA (18) [noun] A solid figure with many flat faces and straight edges. | [noun] A polyscope, or multiplying glass. PONDEROSA (12) [noun] A very large species of pine tree native to western North America, Pinus ponderosa. PORPHYRIA (19) [noun] Any of several usually hereditary abnormalities of porphyrin metabolism characterized by excretion of excess porphyrins in the urine. PORTULACA (13) POZZOLANA (29) [noun] A type of volcanic ash used for mortar or for cement which sets under water. PRAESIDIA (12) PRENOMINA (13) PRIMIPARA (15) [noun] A woman or female animal during or after her first pregnancy. | [noun] (specifically) A woman or female animal that has carried a first pregnancy to a viable gestational age. PRIMORDIA (14) [noun] An aggregation of cells that is the first stage in the development of an organ. PRINCIPIA (15) PROCAMBIA (17) PROPYLAEA (16) [noun] A vestibule or entrance, to a temple. PROSTOMIA (13) PROTONEMA (13) PSALTERIA (11) PUERPERIA (13) PYROMANIA (16) [noun] A compulsive disorder characterised by obsession with fire or uncontrollable urges to start fires. RAFFLESIA (15) [noun] Any of several large parasitic plants, of the genus Rafflesia, from South East Asia, that have no roots, stems or leaves; Rafflesia arnoldii has the largest known flower with a diameter of over a yard. RAUWOLFIA (15) [noun] Any of several small trees and shrubs, of the genus Rauwolfia, that yields materials of medical use. | [noun] Any of a group of alkaloids extracted from these trees. REFERENDA (13) [noun] A direct popular vote on a proposed law or constitutional amendment. The adposition on is usually used before the related subject of the vote. | [noun] An action, choice, etc., which is perceived as passing judgment on another matter. RHIZOMATA (23) RUDBECKIA (18) [noun] Any member of the genus Rudbeckia of coneflowers. SABADILLA (12) [noun] A Mexican and Central American plant of the lily family (Schoenocaulon officinale). | [noun] The seeds of this plant, used in medicine and insecticides. SANATORIA (9) [noun] An institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence. SANITARIA (9) [noun] An institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence. SANITORIA (9) SANTOLINA (9) [noun] Any of the genus Santolina of evergreen shrubs in the sunflower family. SAPODILLA (12) [noun] Manilkara zapota, a long-lived evergreen tree native to the New World tropics. | [noun] The fruit from the sapodilla tree. The fruit is 4-8 cm in diameter, has a fuzzy brown skin with earthy brown flesh. SARCOMATA (13) [noun] A type of malignant tumor of the bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue. SCAGLIOLA (12) [noun] Plasterwork imitating marble, granite, etc. SCINTILLA (11) [noun] A small spark or flash. | [noun] A small or trace amount. SCLEROTIA (11) [noun] A compact mass of hardened mycelium stored with reserve food material that, in some higher fungi such as ergot, becomes detached and remains dormant until a favourable opportunity for growth occurs. SCOTOMATA (13) [noun] An area of impaired or lost vision within a field of vision otherwise in a good (or at least healthy) state. SEBORRHEA (14) [noun] A skin disorder causing scaly, flaky, itchy, red skin. SENHORITA (12) [noun] A young woman in or from a Lusophone community. SENTENTIA (9) SEQUESTRA (18) [noun] A fragment of bone or other dead tissue that has separated during necrosis SESTERTIA (9) SICKLEMIA (17) SIGNORINA (10) [noun] A courtesy title for an unmarried woman of Italian origin. | [noun] Maitake, hen of the woods (mushroom) SIMPLICIA (15) SIMULACRA (13) [noun] An image or representation. | [noun] A faint trace or semblance. SINCIPITA (13) SOLFATARA (12) [noun] An area of volcanic activity that gives off sulfurous steam. SOPAPILLA (13) [noun] A small, crisp, puffy, deep-fried pastry often served with honey. SOUVLAKIA (16) [noun] Any of several Greek dishes such as kalamaki, giros, kebab and shawarma. | [noun] A wrapped pancake dish filled with meat, salad and some kind of sauce or dressing, commonly called a kebab. SPERMATIA (13) SPIROGYRA (15) [noun] Any of a group of freshwater, filamentous green algae, of the genus Spirogyra, having chloroplasts arranged in spirals. SPORANGIA (12) [noun] A case, capsule, or container in which spores are produced by an organism. STOMODAEA (12) SUBGENERA (12) [noun] A subdivision of a genus. SUBMUCOSA (15) [noun] A layer of connective tissue beneath a mucous membrane SUBSTRATA (11) [noun] A layer that lies underneath another. | [noun] The underlying cause or basis of something. | [noun] A substrate. SUDATORIA (10) [noun] A hot room used to induce sweating, steam room, steam bath, sauna. SUPERNOVA (14) [noun] The explosion of a star, which increases its brightness to typically a billion times that of our sun, though attenuated by the great distance from our sun. Some leave only debris (Type I); others fade to invisibility as neutron stars (Type II). SYNALEPHA (17) TARANTULA (9) [noun] Any of the large, hairy New World spiders comprising the family Theraphosidae. | [noun] (by extension) A member of certain other groups of spiders, generally characterized by large size, hairiness, or membership of infraorder Mygalomorphae to which Theraphosidae family also belongs. | [noun] A species of wolf spider, Lycosa tarantula, native to southern Europe, the mildly poisonous bite of which was once thought to cause an extreme urge to dance (tarantism). TESSITURA (9) [noun] The vocal range of a singer. | [noun] How a musical instrument sounds in different parts of its range. TRABECULA (13) [noun] A small supporting beam. | [noun] A small mineralized spicule that forms a network in spongy bone. | [noun] A fibrous strand of connective tissue that supports it in place. TRATTORIA (9) [noun] A small, informal Italian-style restaurant. TREPONEMA (13) [noun] Any of many anaerobic spirochetes, of the genus Treponema, many of which cause infectious diseases. TRICLINIA (11) [noun] A couch for reclining at mealtimes, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts. | [noun] A dining room furnished with such a triple couch. TULAREMIA (11) [noun] An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis. URTICARIA (11) [noun] Itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or other conditions. VAGOTONIA (13) VALLECULA (14) [noun] A depression or groove in the anatomy. VARICELLA (14) [noun] Chickenpox | [noun] Any of various other eruptive diseases, such as swinepox, hives and varioloid.

ACROPHOBIA (19) [noun] Fear of heights. ADVENTITIA (14) [noun] The outermost layer of epithelial tissue encasing a visceral organ. AERENCHYMA (20) [noun] A spongy, airy tissue found especially in the roots of aquatic plants AFICIONADA (16) [noun] A female fan or devotee of a particular sport or activity, especially bullfighting. ALGOLAGNIA (12) [noun] A physical condition that causes a person to gain sexual pleasure by suffering pain, particularly to erogenous zones. AMENORRHEA (15) [noun] Absence of menstrual discharge. ANACOLUTHA (15) [noun] (grammar) A sentence or clause that is grammatically inconsistent, especially with respect to the type of clausal or phrasal complement for the initial clause. | [noun] Intentional use of such a structure. ANALEMMATA (14) [noun] Plural of analemma, a figure-eight curve traced by the sun's position in the sky at the same clock time throughout a year, used in sundial design and astronomy. ANATHEMATA (15) [noun] Plural of anathema; things or people that are cursed, denounced, or regarded with disgust and hatred. | [noun] In Christian liturgy, formal curses or excommunications pronounced by the church. ANCHOVETTA (18) [noun] A small anchovy fish found in South American waters, particularly off the coasts of Peru and Chile, and used commercially for fish meal and oil production. ANESTHESIA (13) [noun] An artificial method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain without causing loss of vital functions, by the administration of one or more agents which block pain impulses before transmitted to the brain. | [noun] The loss or prevention of sensation, as caused by anesthesia, lesion in the nervous system or other physical abnormality. ANIMALCULA (14) [noun] Microscopic or extremely small animals, especially those visible only under a microscope; plural of animalculum. ANTEPENDIA (13) [noun] Plural of antependium; decorative cloth hangings or frontals placed in front of an altar in a church. ANTHERIDIA (14) [noun] An organ producing male gametes called antherozoids, found in some algae, ferns, and bryophytes. ANTIANEMIA (12) ANTIASTHMA (15) [adjective] Effective against or used to treat asthma. ANTINAUSEA (10) ARCHEGONIA (16) [noun] A multicellular reproductive structure that contains a large, non-motile gamete (egg cell), and within which an embryo will develop. ARRHYTHMIA (21) [noun] An irregular heartbeat. | [noun] A disease entity involving such beats, such as atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, AV nodal reentrant tachycardia, or others. ARTHRALGIA (14) [noun] Pain in a joint, especially when not caused by arthritis. ASAFOETIDA (14) [noun] A resinous gum from the stem and roots of genus Ferula, especially Ferula assa-foetida, having a strong, unpleasant smell, with culinary and medical uses. ASPERGILLA (13) [noun] An implement, in the form of a brush, or of a rod with a perforated container, for sprinkling holy water; a holy water sprinkler. ASPIDISTRA (13) [noun] Any of several Asian plants, of the genus Aspidistra, having large leaves and small bell-shaped flowers; widely cultivated as a houseplant ATHEROMATA (15) [noun] Plural of atheroma; deposits of fatty substances in artery walls that characterize atherosclerosis. | [noun] Abnormal accumulations of lipids and other substances in tissues or organs. AUTOSTRADA (11) [noun] A motorway in Italy (and some other countries) BACTEREMIA (16) [noun] The medical condition of having bacteria in the bloodstream. BANDERILLA (13) [noun] A decorated barbed stick used in bullfighting to stick into the bulls' shoulders. BARRACOUTA (14) [noun] The snoek, Thyrsites atun, a foodfish. BARRAMUNDA (15) [noun] A large freshwater fish native to Australia and Southeast Asia, known for its ability to breathe air and migrate between freshwater and saltwater environments. BASOPHILIA (17) [noun] A condition characterized by an abnormal increase in basophilic cells or an affinity for basic stains in tissues or blood cells. BELLADONNA (13) [noun] A plant, Atropa belladonna, having purple bell-shaped flowers and poisonous black glossy berries. | [noun] An alkaloid extracted from this plant, sometimes used medicinally, containing atropine. BLASTEMATA (14) [noun] Plural of blastema; groups of undifferentiated cells capable of developing into organs or body parts during regeneration or embryonic development. BLASTOMATA (14) [noun] Plural of blastoma, a type of tumor that arises from embryonic tissue or immature cells. CAMORRISTA (14) [noun] A member of the Camorra, a Neapolitan secret society or mafia organization. CANDELABRA (15) [noun] A single candelabrum. | [noun] A candle holder. CARPOGONIA (15) [noun] The female reproductive structure in rust fungi and red algae that receives the male gamete during fertilization. CASCARILLA (14) [noun] A fragrant bark of a tropical American shrub used in perfumery and as a flavoring agent. | [noun] The shrub itself, native to the Caribbean and Central America. CHARISMATA (17) [noun] A power or authority, generally of a spiritual nature, believed to be a freely given gift by the grace of God. | [noun] Personal charm or magnetism | [noun] An extraordinary power granted by the Holy Spirit CHAUTAUQUA (24) [noun] A place in the state of New York where people go over in the summer for vacation to enjoy artistic events. | [noun] A kind of travelling tent-show which used to move across America featuring popular talks. CHINCHILLA (20) [noun] Either of two small, crepuscular rodents of the genus Chinchilla, native to the Andes, prized for their very soft fur and often kept as pets. | [noun] The fur of a chinchilla, used for clothing. | [noun] A variety of Persian cat with white fur and green eyes. CHIONODOXA (23) [noun] Any plant of the genus Chionodoxa. CHLOASMATA (17) [noun] Plural of chloasma, a medical condition characterized by patches of hyperpigmentation or discoloration on the skin, typically on the face. CHROMONEMA (19) [noun] A threadlike structure within a chromosome, consisting of a single strand of DNA or protein fibers, visible during cell division. CHUCKWALLA (24) [noun] An iguana, of the genus Sauromalus, living in arid regions of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. CITRONELLA (12) [noun] A tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon nardus, that has citrus-scented leaves. | [noun] An essential oil obtained from this plant, often used as an insect repellent. CLOSTRIDIA (13) [noun] Any of several mostly anaerobic gram-positive bacteria, of the genus Clostridium, that are present in the soil and in the intestines of humans and animals and are capable of forming spores COELENTERA (12) [noun] A phylum of marine animals including jellyfish, sea anemones, and corals, characterized by a simple body structure with tentacles surrounding a central mouth. COLEOPTERA (14) [noun] An order of insects comprising the beetles, characterized by hardened front wings (elytra) that cover membranous hind wings. COLEORHIZA (24) [noun] A sheath-like structure found in a monocotyledon plant seed that acts as a protective covering enclosing the radicle. COLOBOMATA (16) [noun] Plural of coloboma, a congenital absence or defect of part of the eye structure, typically affecting the iris, retina, or optic nerve. COLORATURA (12) [noun] Florid or fancy passages in vocal music. | [noun] A singer of such passages, especially a soprano. | [adjective] Pertaining to coloratura. COLUMBARIA (16) [noun] A large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, particularly those of ancien regime France. | [noun] A pigeonhole in such a dovecote. | [noun] A building, a vault or a similar place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns containing cremated remains. CONCERTINA (14) [noun] A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends. | [noun] Something resembling a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together. | [noun] Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle. CORDILLERA (13) [noun] An extensive, continent-wide chain of mountains, especially one in the Americas. CORNUCOPIA (16) [noun] A goat's horn endlessly overflowing with fruit, flowers and grain; or full of whatever its owner wanted. | [noun] A hollow horn- or cone-shaped object, filled with edible or useful things. | [noun] An abundance or plentiful supply. CORRIGENDA (14) [noun] An error that is to be corrected in a printed work after publication. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A list of errors in a printed work as a separate page of corrections. CREMATORIA (14) [noun] A place where the bodies of dead people are cremated CYCLOPEDIA (20) [noun] The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge. | [noun] An encyclopedia. CYSTINURIA (15) DEFINIENDA (15) [noun] The term—word or phrase—defined in a definition. DESIDERATA (12) [noun] Something that is wished for, or considered desirable. DIASTEMATA (13) [noun] A gap or space between two adjacent teeth, especially the upper front incisors (in humans). | [noun] Any abnormal space, fissure, or cleft in an organ or part of the body. | [noun] The modified protoplasm at the equator of a cell, existing before mitotic division. DIPHTHERIA (19) [noun] A serious infectious disease which causes inflammation of mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae. DIPSOMANIA (15) [noun] Addiction to alcohol. | [noun] Specifically periodic alcoholism, characterized by bouts of heavy drinking rather than continuous indulgence in alcohol. DROSOPHILA (16) [noun] Any fruit fly of the genus Drosophila DYSARTHRIA (17) [noun] Difficulty in articulating words due to disturbance in the form or function of the structures that modulate voice into speech; one of the first indicative symptoms of myasthenia gravis, brought about by an autoimmune response to acetylcholine receptors. DYSKINESIA (18) [noun] Impairment of voluntary movements resulting in fragmented or jerky motions ENCHIRIDIA (16) [noun] A handbook or manual. | [noun] A dagger. ENDOCARDIA (14) ENDOMETRIA (13) ENDOTHECIA (16) ENDOTHELIA (14) [noun] A thin layer of flat epithelial cells that lines the heart, serous cavities, lymph vessels, and blood vessels. EQUILIBRIA (21) [noun] The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change. | [noun] Mental balance. | [noun] The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same. ERYTHREMIA (18) EUTHANASIA (13) [noun] The practice of intentionally and painlessly killing a human being or animal for humane reasons, especially in order to end great suffering or poor quality of life. | [noun] An easy death, or the means to bring about such a death. FATSHEDERA (17) FLORIBUNDA (16) [noun] A rose cultivar, having large sprays of small flowers, made by crossing polyantha and hybrid tea rose varieties. FLORILEGIA (14) [noun] A collection of flowers | [noun] A patristic anthology FRAXINELLA (20) [noun] A fragrant herb in the rue family, Dictamnus albus GAILLARDIA (12) [noun] Any of several New World flowering plants of the genus Gaillardia GAMETANGIA (14) [noun] A gamete-producing organ or cell found in many multicellular protists, algae and fungi, and in the gametophytes of plants. GLYCOSURIA (16) [noun] The presence of sugars (especially glucose) in the urine, often as a result of diabetes mellitus GRANADILLA (12) [noun] Any of several Passion flowers of tropical America | [noun] The edible fruit of these plants GYPSOPHILA (21) [noun] Any of the many flowering plants of the genus Gypsophila, which have a profusion of small pink or white flowers. HEMANGIOMA (18) [noun] A congenital, benign tumor of endothelial cells. HEMATOMATA (17) [noun] A swelling of blood, usually clotted, which forms as a result of broken blood vessels. HEMIPLEGIA (18) [noun] Total or partial inability to move one side of the body. HEMOPHILIA (20) [noun] Any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding, usually passed from mother to son. HEPATOMATA (17) [noun] A cancer originating in the liver. HESPERIDIA (16) [noun] Any of several kinds of true berries, including citrus fruit such as the lemon and lime, which have pulpy interiors and leathery skins containing aromatic oils. HOMOPHOBIA (22) [noun] Fear of, dislike of or prejudice against homosexuals. | [noun] (individual occurrences) A pathological fear of mankind. HORMOGONIA (16) HYPERMANIA (20) HYPERMEDIA (21) [noun] The use of text, data, graphics, audio and video as elements of an extended hypertext system in which all elements are linked so that the user can move among them at will HYPERTONIA (18) [noun] An abnormal increase in tightness of muscle tone, common in cerebral palsy. HYPOLIMNIA (20) [noun] The perpetually cold layer of water that lies beneath the thermocline of a thermally stratified lake. HYPOPLASIA (20) ICOSAHEDRA (16) [noun] A polyhedron with twenty faces. | [noun] (specifically) A regular icosahedron: one of the Platonic solids, all of whose faces are regular (equilateral) triangles INCUNABULA (14) [noun] A book, single sheet, or image that was printed before the year 1501 in Europe. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) The cradle, birthplace or origin of something. INTERREGNA (11) [noun] The period of time between the end of a sovereign's reign and the accession of another sovereign. | [noun] A period of time during which normal executive leadership is suspended or interrupted. | [noun] An intermission in any order of succession; any breach of continuity in action or influence. JABOTICABA (23) JINRICKSHA (26) [noun] A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person. JINRIKISHA (24) [noun] A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person. KERATOMATA (16) KLEBSIELLA (16) [noun] Any of the genus Klebsiella of rod-shaped bacteria, which cause many diseases in humans. KOOKABURRA (20) [noun] Any of several species of kingfishers in the genus Dacelo, known for their laugh-like call. LATIFUNDIA (14) [noun] A great landed estate with absentee ownership and labor often in a state of partial servitude. LEISHMANIA (15) [noun] A parasite that causes leishmaniasis, a genus trypanosome protozoa, Leishmania. LEPROSARIA (12) LEUKOPENIA (16) [noun] An abnormally low count of leukocytes, or white blood cells, in the blood. LEUKORRHEA (17) [noun] Thick, whitish vaginal discharge. LYMPHOMATA (22) [noun] A malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue. MANDRAGORA (14) [noun] Mandrake (genus Mandragora); often specifically mandrake root, traditionally used as a narcotic. | [noun] A kind of tiny dragon immune to fire. MARGINALIA (13) [noun] Notes in the margin of a document. MASSASAUGA (13) [noun] The rattlesnake Sistrurus catenatus (formerly Crotalinus catenatus) in the family Viperidae, found in three subspecies. MEDIASTINA (13) [noun] The region in mammals between the pleural sacs, containing the heart and all of the thoracic viscera except the lungs. MELANOMATA (14) MENINGIOMA (15) [noun] A common tumour of the central nervous system, occurring in the meninges, usually benign. MESOTHELIA (15) [noun] A membrane of flat epithelial cells that lines the body cavity of embryos and forms the squamous cells of the peritoneum, pericardium, and pleura METAPLASIA (14) [noun] The conversion of one type of tissue into another. METHYLDOPA (21) MICROFAUNA (17) [noun] The smallest of the faunal size divisions, including mainly microorganisms but also sometimes applied to the tiniest species of animal groups such as ticks, insects, etc. MICROFLORA (17) [noun] Microscopic plant life, especially the bacterial colonies found in the gut of normal, healthy animals and humans. MONOCHASIA (17) [noun] A type of cyme on which each single axis bears one flower. MORTADELLA (13) [noun] A smooth-textured Italian pork sausage with lumps of fat, flavoured with spices; eaten cold. MOZZARELLA (30) [noun] Soft Italian cheese made from cow's or buffalo's milk and commonly used as a pizza topping and in salads etc. | [noun] Money. MULTIMEDIA (15) [noun] The combined use of sound, video, and text to present an idea. | [adjective] Of, or relating to this combined use of media | [adjective] Of, or relating to an application that can combine such media into an integrated package MYASTHENIA (18) [noun] Abnormal weakness of the muscles; but especially myasthenia gravis. MYCETOMATA (19) MYCOPLASMA (21) [noun] Any infectious bacterium of the genus Mycoplasma, often specifically Mycoplasma pneumoniae MYCORRHIZA (29) [noun] A symbiosis between the mycelium of a fungus and the roots of a plant. MYTHOMANIA (20) [noun] A compulsion to tell lies and exaggerate the truth. MYTHOPOEIA (20) [noun] Creation of any myth. NEURILEMMA (14) [noun] The outer membranous covering of a nerve fiber. NEUROSPORA (12) NYCTALOPIA (17) [noun] The inability to see clearly in dim light; night blindness OPHTHALMIA (20) [noun] Ophthalmitis ORTHOPTERA (15) [noun] Any of very many four-winged insects, of the order Orthoptera, such as grasshoppers, crickets and locusts OSTENSORIA (10) PARAMNESIA (14) [noun] An inability to distinguish between real memories and dreams or fantasies. | [noun] An inability to remember the meaning of common words. PARAPLEGIA (15) [noun] A condition where the lower half of a patient's body is paralyzed and cannot move. PARENCHYMA (22) [noun] The functional tissue of an organ as distinguished from the connective and supporting tissue. PARMIGIANA (15) [noun] (in combination) Any dish in which a main ingredient is combined with cheese and coated with tomato sauce before being baked. | [adjective] Cooked or served with Parmesan cheese and tomato sauce. PEDOPHILIA (18) [noun] Sexual attraction to children by adults. | [noun] Sexual activity between adults and children. PENETRALIA (12) [noun] The innermost, secret or hidden parts; mysteries. | [noun] The innermost parts of a building, such as a shrine, recess or a sanctuary within a temple. PENICILLIA (14) PENTAHEDRA (16) [noun] A solid geometric figure with five faces. PERICARDIA (15) [noun] A serous membrane that surrounds the heart allowing it to contract. PERICRANIA (14) PERINEURIA (12) PERIPETEIA (14) [noun] A sudden reversal of fortune as a plot point in Classical tragedy. | [noun] (by extension) Any sudden change in circumstances; a crisis. | [noun] A turning point in psychosocial development. PERITHECIA (17) [noun] An ascocarp shaped like a skittle or ball, distinguished by a small pore, the ostiole, through which the spores are released one by one when ripe. PHYLLOXERA (25) [noun] An aphid, Daktulosphaira vitifoliae of the family Phylloxeridae (not the genus Phylloxera), that is very destructive to grape vines; also, the diseased condition of a vine caused by this aphid. PIPSISSEWA (17) [noun] Any of several evergreen plants, of the genus Chimaphila; the prince's pine; in particular, the umbellate wintergreen, Chimaphila umbellata. PIROPLASMA (16) PLANETARIA (12) [noun] A display museum in which images of stars and other astronomical phenomena are projected onto a domed ceiling. | [noun] An orrery. POINSETTIA (12) [noun] A plant, Euphorbia pulcherrima, with rather small and insignificant flowers but large brightly coloured leaves. POLYDIPSIA (18) [noun] Excessive and constant thirst caused by disease. POLYPHAGIA (21) [noun] An excessive appetite for food | [noun] The eating of many different types of food PORTABELLA (14) POTENTILLA (12) [noun] Any of many shrubs and herbs of the genus Potentilla; the cinquefoils. PRAENOMINA (14) PREMAXILLA (21) PRESBYOPIA (19) [noun] Inability of the eye, due to ageing, to focus on nearby objects; farsightedness PROCTODAEA (15) PRODROMATA (15) PROPAGANDA (16) [noun] A concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of large numbers of people. PROTHALLIA (15) PYRACANTHA (20) [noun] A firethorn, any of the genus Pyracantha of thorny evergreen large shrubs. QUADRENNIA (20) [noun] A period of 4 years, the sets of four years in the Egyptian and Greek calendars. QUESADILLA (20) [noun] A Mexican dish made by filling a tortilla (corn or flour) with cheese, folding in half and toasting until the cheese is melted. Additional ingredients, such as meats (chicken or beef, commonly), or vegetables can be added. Often served with salsa, guacamole and/or sour cream. RETINACULA (12) RICKETTSIA (16) [noun] Any of a group of gram-negative bacteria, of the genus Rickettsia, carried as parasites by ticks, fleas and lice; they cause typhus and other diseases SACAHUISTA (15) SALMONELLA (12) [noun] Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases SARCOLEMMA (16) [noun] A thin cell membrane that surrounds a striated muscle fibre SARRACENIA (12) [noun] Any of various pitcher plants of genus Sarracenia. SATURNALIA (10) [noun] A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence; a period of unrestrained revelry. SATYAGRAHA (17) [noun] The policy of nonviolent resistance as used by Mahatma Gandhi during the struggle for Indian independence. SCARLATINA (12) [noun] Scarlet fever SCLEROMATA (14) [noun] Induration of the tissues | [noun] Rhinoscleroma SCRIPTORIA (14) [noun] A room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records, especially such a room in a monastery. SEGUIDILLA (12) [noun] A lively Spanish dance in triple time. | [noun] The music for this dance. SENSIBILIA (12) SEPTICEMIA (16) [noun] A disease caused by the presence of pathogenic organisms, especially bacteria, or their toxins, in the bloodstream, characterised by chills and fever. SINSEMILLA (12) [noun] A form of cannabis where only the female is allowed to blossom. Without pollen from the male plant, the female blossoms produce no seeds, forming large panicled flowers. SOPAIPILLA (14) [noun] A small, crisp, puffy, deep-fried pastry often served with honey. SPOROGONIA (13) STAMINODIA (13) STERIGMATA (13) [noun] A thin projection of the basidium in those fungi that bear a basidiospore STYLOPODIA (16) SUCCEDANEA (15) [noun] A substitute, replacement for something else, particularly of a medicine used in place of another. SYNALOEPHA (18) SYNTAGMATA (16) [noun] A constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit. | [noun] An arrangement of units that together bears a meaning. | [noun] (history) A Macedonian phalanx fighting formation consisting of 256 men with long spears (sarissae). TARANTELLA (10) [noun] A rapid dance in 6/8 time, originating in Italy, or a piece of music for such a dance. TERATOMATA (12) [noun] A benign or malignant tumour, especially of the gonads, that arises from germ cells and consists of different types of tissue such as skin, hair, or muscle. TERMITARIA (12) [noun] A termite colony. TETRAHEDRA (14) [noun] A polyhedron with four faces; the regular tetrahedron, the faces of which are equal equilateral triangles, is one of the Platonic solids. TILLANDSIA (11) TOXOPLASMA (21) [noun] Any member of the genus Toxoplasma of parasitic sporozoans. ULTRAVACUA (15) VILLANELLA (13) [noun] An old rustic dance, accompanied by singing. VORTICELLA (15) [noun] Any protozoan of the genus Vorticella. WASHATERIA (16) [noun] A laundromat. | [noun] A building that houses a village's only running water for drinking, washing, and showering. WASHETERIA (16) [noun] A laundromat. | [noun] A building that houses a village's only running water for drinking, washing, and showering. XANTHOMATA (22) [noun] A small, yellow nodule, rich in cholesterol and other lipids, that occurs in the skin, often near a joint XENOPHOBIA (24) [noun] A fear of strangers or foreigners. | [noun] A fear of aliens. | [noun] A strong antipathy or aversion to strangers or foreigners.

ABRACADABRA (18) [noun] A use of the mystical term ‘abracadabra’, supposed to work as part of a healing charm or a magical spell; any spell or incantation making use of the word. | [noun] Mumbo-jumbo; obscure language or technicalities; jargon. | [interjection] Used to indicate that a magic trick or other illusion has been performed. AGORAPHOBIA (19) [noun] The fear of wide open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions. | [noun] An aversion to markets. ALBUMINURIA (15) [noun] The presence of albumin in the urine, often a symptom of renal disease AMPHISBAENA (20) [noun] A mythical serpent having a head at each end of its body, able to move in either direction. | [noun] A member of a genus of lizards, native to the Americas, having extremities which are very similar. ANAESTHESIA (14) [noun] An artificial method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain without causing loss of vital functions, by the administration of one or more agents which block pain impulses before transmitted to the brain. | [noun] The loss or prevention of sensation, as caused by anesthesia, lesion in the nervous system or other physical abnormality. ANISEIKONIA (15) [noun] A condition of unequal magnification of images in the two eyes, or a difference in the size or shape of images on the retinas of the two eyes. ANTIMALARIA (13) ANTONOMASIA (13) [noun] The substitution of an epithet or title in place of a proper noun. | [noun] Use of a proper name to suggest its most obvious quality or aspect. APPRESSORIA (15) [noun] Plural of appressorium; specialized fungal structures that attach to and penetrate host plant surfaces. ARCHESPORIA (18) [noun] The tissue in plant anthers that gives rise to pollen sacs and sporogenous tissue. ASTROCYTOMA (18) [noun] A type of brain tumor that originates from astrocytes, a type of glial cell in the central nervous system. AZOOSPERMIA (24) [noun] The absence of live sperm in the semen. BACCHANALIA (20) [noun] Any wild, orgiastic party or celebration. BACTERIURIA (15) [noun] The presence of bacteria in the urine BIBLIOMANIA (17) [noun] A passion for owning valuable books. BIBLIOTHECA (20) [noun] A library or collection of books. | [noun] A catalog or list of books. BODHISATTVA (20) [noun] A person who has taken specific lay or monastic vows and who is on the road to perfect knowledge; specifically, one who foregoes personal nirvana in order to help others achieve enlightenment. | [noun] An enlightened being existing in a form of existence beyond the ordinary forms of physical reality understood and acknowledged by scientific thought, resembling the Western notion of angels, but with a wealth of its own nuances and expectations. These include the compassionate working for enlightenment of all sentient beings. BRADYCARDIA (20) [noun] The condition of having a slow heartbeat, defined as under 60 beats per minute for an adult. CARCINOMATA (17) [noun] An invasive malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue that tends to metastasize to other areas of the body. CHAULMOOGRA (19) [noun] A tree found in Southeast Asia, Hydnocarpus wightiana, which yields an oil that was formerly used as a treatment for leprosy. CHIMICHANGA (24) [noun] A deep-fried wet burrito CHRISTIANIA (16) CHUCKAWALLA (25) [noun] A large herbivorous lizard native to the southwestern United States and Mexico that hides in rock crevices and inflates its body when threatened. COLLECTANEA (15) [noun] A selective collection of passages from various sources or by various authors; an anthology COLLENCHYMA (23) [noun] A living, elongated, mechanical and flexible ground tissue with angular pectin depositions; present just under leaves, tendrils and stems of climbers; formed before vascular differentiation. CONDYLOMATA (19) [noun] A wartlike growth on the skin or a mucous membrane, caused by certain types of HPV viruses, usually occurring in the genital area CONJUNCTIVA (25) [noun] A clear mucous membrane that lines the inner surface of the eyelid and the exposed surface of the eyeball or sclera. COPROPHILIA (20) [noun] A marked interest in excrement; especially the use of feces or filth for sexual excitement. COUNTERPLEA (15) CRYPTOMERIA (20) [noun] A Japanese cedar, Cryptomeria japonica CYCLOPAEDIA (21) [noun] The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge. | [noun] An encyclopedia. CYCLOTHYMIA (26) [noun] A chronic mental disturbance characterized by mood swings and depression. DEFINIENTIA (15) [noun] The word or phrase that defines the definiendum in a definition. DIENCEPHALA (19) DIFFERENTIA (18) [noun] A distinguishing feature which marks a species off from other members of the same genus. DIVERTICULA (17) [noun] A small out-pouching of an organ wall such as the large intestine or urinary bladder. DODECAHEDRA (19) [noun] A polyhedron with twelve faces; the regular dodecahedron has regular pentagons as faces and is one of the Platonic solids. DYSRHYTHMIA (26) [noun] A disturbance to an otherwise normal biological rhythm (especially that of the heart). ELECTRONICA (15) [noun] Any of a wide range of electronic music genres. | [noun] Electronic items in general. | [noun] The data trail of an individual on the public internet. ENTOMOFAUNA (16) EPITHALAMIA (18) [noun] A song or poem celebrating a marriage. EPITHELIOMA (18) EXANTHEMATA (23) [noun] A widespread rash usually occurring in children. FASHIONISTA (17) [noun] A person who creates or promotes high fashion, i.e. a fashion designer or fashion editor. | [noun] A person who dresses according to the trends of fashion, or one who closely follows those trends. FRITILLARIA (14) GLOSSOLALIA (12) [noun] Speaking a language one does not know, or speaking elaborate but apparently meaningless speech, while in a trance-like state (or, supposedly, under the influence of a deity or spirits); speaking in tongues. | [noun] Knowledge of a language one has never learned. | [noun] Glossolalia. GRANDIFLORA (16) [noun] A rose of the Grandiflora class of roses created in the middle of the 20th century as backcrosses of hybrid teas and floribundas that fit neither category. GRANULOMATA (14) [noun] An inflammatory nodule found in many diseases, consisting of histiocytes (macrophages) attempting to wall off substances they perceive as foreign but are unable to eliminate, such as certain infectious organisms as well as other materials such as suture fragments | [noun] (medicine, less specific) any small nodule HEBEPHRENIA (21) [noun] A type of mental disorder occurring during puberty. | [noun] A form of schizophrenia characterised by inappropriate behaviour and emotional responses. HIBERNACULA (18) HYDROMEDUSA (21) [noun] The South American snake-necked turtle. HYDROPHOBIA (25) [noun] An aversion to water, as a symptom of rabies; the disease of rabies itself. | [noun] A morbid fear of water; aquaphobia. HYDROXYUREA (28) HYMENOPTERA (21) [noun] Any insect of the order Hymenoptera HYPERCAPNIA (23) HYPERMNESIA (21) [noun] An elevated level of memory recall. HYPERPHAGIA (25) [noun] An excessive appetite for food | [noun] The eating of many different types of food HYPERPLASIA (21) [noun] An increase in the size of a tissue or organ due to increased number of cells. HYPOKALEMIA (25) [noun] The condition of having an abnormally low concentration of potassium ions in the blood. HYPOTHERMIA (24) [noun] Abnormally low body temperature; specifically, below 35°C. IMPEDIMENTA (18) INFUNDIBULA (17) [noun] A funnel-shaped cavity or organ. IPECACUANHA (20) [noun] The root of Carapichea ipecacuanha, used as an emetic or purgative; a preparation of this root used as a drug; ipecac. | [noun] The flowering plant Carapichea ipecacuanha. KINESTHESIA (18) [noun] Sensation or perception of motion. | [noun] Proprioception or static position sense; the perception of the position and posture of the body; also, more broadly, including the motion of the body as well. See usage notes below. KLEPTOMANIA (19) [noun] A psychological disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsession with stealing without economic or material need. LEPIDOPTERA (16) [noun] Any insect of the order Lepidoptera. LEUKOPLAKIA (21) MAQUILADORA (23) [noun] An assembly plant in Mexico owned by a company from the United States or another foreign country, using cheap local labour and imported components, and which then exports its products to the company's country of origin; also (by extension) similar factories in other countries. MEGALOMANIA (16) [noun] A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence. | [noun] Narcissistic personality disorder. | [noun] An obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions. MELANCHOLIA (18) [noun] Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy. | [noun] Clinical depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy. MEMORABILIA (17) [noun] Objects that are connected to or remind their owner of past events. | [noun] Things worth remembering: noteworthy points. MENORRHAGIA (17) [noun] Excessive menstruation. | [noun] The normal flow of the menses. METASEQUOIA (22) MISCELLANEA (15) [noun] A miscellaneous collection of different things; a miscellany. | [noun] A miscellany. NECROPHILIA (18) [noun] (sexuality) A pathological attraction to dead bodies, especially sexual attraction or intercourse. | [noun] Pathological fascination with death. NEGROPHOBIA (19) NYMPHOMANIA (23) [noun] Excess of sexual behaviour or desire in women. ORTHODONTIA (15) [noun] Orthodontics PACHYSANDRA (22) [noun] A genus, Pachysandra, of four or five species of evergreen shrubs or subshrubs, belonging to the boxwood family, Buxaceae, used ornamentally as groundcover. PAPILLOMATA (17) [noun] An epithelial tumour, usually benign, with the appearance of a papilla PARESTHESIA (16) [noun] A sensation of burning, prickling, itching, or tingling of the skin, with no obvious cause. PARONOMASIA (15) [noun] A pun or play on words. PASSACAGLIA (16) [noun] A form of historical Spanish or Italian dance characterised by a serious nature, triple metre, and use of a ground bass. | [noun] (by extension) Any piece of classical music with similar characteristics. PERESTROIKA (17) [noun] (singularity theory) A situation where a small variation of parameters leads to a sudden change in properties. | [proper noun] A program of political and economic reform carried out in the Soviet Union in the 1980s and early 1990s under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev. | [proper noun] The period of time in the Soviet Union during which these reforms were carried out and in effect. PERIONYCHIA (21) PHANTASMATA (18) PHILODENDRA (18) [noun] Any of several climbing plants, of the genus Philodendron, native to America and the West Indies that are often grown as house plants. PHOTOPHOBIA (23) [noun] Excessive sensitivity to light and the aversion to bright light; abnormal fear of light. | [noun] An aversion to or fear of being photographed, the dissemination of personal photographs, or viewing photographs. PLASMALEMMA (19) [noun] The cell membrane. PLASMODESMA (18) [noun] A microscopic channel traversing the cell walls of plant cells and some algal cells, enabling transport and communication between them. PROLEGOMENA (16) [noun] (usually in the plural) A prefatory discussion; a formal essay or critical discussion serving to introduce and interpret an extended work. PROTEINURIA (13) [noun] The presence of protein in the urine PROTHALAMIA (18) [noun] A song or poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom about to be married. PROTONEMATA (15) PSEUDOPODIA (17) [noun] A temporary projection of the cytoplasm of certain cells, such as phagocytes, or of certain unicellular organisms, such as amoebas, that serves in locomotion. | [noun] A projection acting as a foot in certain insect larvae. | [noun] By extension, an extension or projection from something. PSYCHEDELIA (22) [noun] The subculture associated with those who take psychedelic drugs. PSYCHODRAMA (24) [noun] A form of psychotherapy in which a patient acts a role in a context devised by a psychotherapist. | [noun] A drama in this form | [noun] A dramatic work focusing on the psychology of its characters QUINQUENNIA (29) [noun] A period of five years. RHIZOCTONIA (25) RHOMBOHEDRA (22) [noun] A prism with six faces, each a rhombus. SALTIMBOCCA (19) [noun] An Italian dish of veal, thinly sliced and rolled in prosciutto ham and sage leaves. SANGUINARIA (12) SANSEVIERIA (14) [noun] Any of the genus Sansevieria of flowering plants native to Africa, Madagascar and southern Asia. SCLERODERMA (16) [noun] A chronic systemic autoimmune disease characterized by hardening the skin or other organs through excessive deposits of collagen. SCOLOPENDRA (16) SCYPHISTOMA (23) [noun] The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian. SELAGINELLA (12) [noun] Any of a group of ferny plants of the genus Selaginella, spike moss. SINFONIETTA (14) [noun] A small-scale symphony (either in length or size of orchestra needed). | [noun] A small orchestra. SPANAKOPITA (19) [noun] A Greek dish made with pre-cooked spinach, butter, olive oil, feta cheese, green onions, egg and seasoning in phyllo pastry. SPANOKOPITA (19) SPERMAGONIA (16) SPERMATHECA (20) [noun] A small sac within the reproductive tract of some female invertebrates, such as insects, which stores sperm until it is used to fertilize the ova. SPERMATOZOA (24) [noun] A reproductive cell or gamete of a male, carried in semen, that fertilizes an ovum to produce a zygote. STEATOPYGIA (17) [noun] An excessive accumulation of fat on the buttocks. STEATORRHEA (14) [noun] The presence of an excessive amount of fat in the feces SUBUMBRELLA (17) [noun] The integument of the undersurface of the bell, or disk-shaped body, of a jellyfish. SUPERSTRATA (13) [noun] A stratum that is on top of another | [noun] A language imposed upon a population that previously spoke another language SYNESTHESIA (17) [noun] A neurological or psychological phenomenon whereby a particular sensory stimulus triggers a second kind of sensation. | [noun] (by extension) The association of one sensory perception with, or description of it in terms of, a different perception that is not experienced at the same time. | [noun] A literary or artistic device whereby one kind of sensation is described in the terms of another. TACHYCARDIA (22) [noun] A rapid resting heart rate, especially one above 100 beats per minute. TETRAHYMENA (19) THALASSEMIA (16) [noun] Any of a group of inherited disorders in which the amount of hemoglobin in the blood is reduced. TIBIOFIBULA (18) TREPONEMATA (15) XIPHISTERNA (23)

ACCIACCATURA (20) [noun] A short grace note (theoretically taking no time at all), occurring on the beat occupied by the main note to which it is prefixed, one scale-step higher or lower than that main note. (Sometimes equivalent, therefore, to a short appoggiatura, but in Baroque music interpreted differently and more strictly.) Written as a note lighter in appearance, typically a quaver (eighth note), with an oblique stroke through the stem. ACHLORHYDRIA (24) [noun] The absence of hydrochloric acid in the stomach APPOGGIATURA (18) [noun] A type of musical ornament, falling on the beat, which often creates a suspension and subtracts for itself half the time value of the principal note which follows. ARMAMENTARIA (16) [noun] All of the equipment available for carrying out a task, especially all the equipment used by a physician in the practice of medicine. BALLETOMANIA (16) [noun] An excessive enthusiasm for or obsession with ballet. BODDHISATTVA (22) [noun] In Buddhism, a being who has attained enlightenment but delays entering nirvana to help others achieve liberation. CHLORENCHYMA (27) [noun] Plant tissue composed of chlorophyll-containing cells that is specialized for photosynthesis. CHROMONEMATA (21) [noun] The plural of chromonema, referring to the individual strands or filaments of a chromosome that become visible during certain stages of cell division. DECALCOMANIA (19) [noun] The process of transferring decorative designs onto surfaces using decals. | [noun] A decal. DEUTERANOPIA (15) [noun] A form of color blindness in which the retina is deficient in or lacks cone cells containing opsins that respond to the color green, resulting in an inability to distinguish red from green. DYSMENORRHEA (21) [noun] Painful menstruation. ENCYCLOPEDIA (22) [noun] A comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field. | [noun] The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge. ENDOTHELIOMA (18) EOSINOPHILIA (17) [noun] The condition of having a high concentration of eosinophils (eosinophil granulocytes) in the blood. EPIPHENOMENA (21) [noun] A symptom that develops during the course of a disease that is not connected to the disease. | [noun] A mental state or process that is an incidental byproduct of physiological events in the brain or nervous system. | [noun] Any state, process, or other activity that is the result of another, a consequence. EXTRAVAGANZA (32) [noun] An extravagant or eccentric piece of music, literature or drama. | [noun] An instance of fantastical or chaotic behaviour or conduct. FIBROMYALGIA (23) [noun] A condition characterised by chronic pain, stiffness, and tenderness of the muscles, tendons, and joints. FIBROSARCOMA (21) [noun] A fibroblastic sarcoma: a malignant tumor derived from fibrous connective tissue FORAMINIFERA (20) [noun] Any of a large group of amoeboid protists, of the order Foraminifera, that are mostly marine. GALACTORRHEA (18) [noun] Lactation (secretion of milk from nipples) not associated with childbirth or nursing. GALACTOSEMIA (17) GLIOBLASTOMA (17) [noun] A fast-growing, malignant tumor of the brain GYNECOMASTIA (20) [noun] Excessive development of breasts in males, resembling the breast development in women. HEMANGIOMATA (20) [noun] A congenital, benign tumor of endothelial cells. HYPERKINESIA (24) [noun] Hyperkinesis HYPERLIPEMIA (24) [noun] An excess quantity of lipid in the blood; a symptom of several medical conditions. HYPERPYREXIA (32) HYPERTHERMIA (25) [noun] The condition of having an abnormally high body temperature caused by a failure of the heat-regulating mechanisms of the body to deal with the heat coming from the environment. | [noun] The therapeutic application of heat to a patient. HYPOCALCEMIA (26) [noun] The condition of having an abnormally low concentration of calcium ions in the blood. HYPOCHONDRIA (26) [noun] A psychological disorder characterized by excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness. | [noun] Melancholy; depression | [noun] The upper region of the abdomen, below the lower ribs, each side of the epigastrium. HYPOGLYCEMIA (28) [noun] A too low level of blood glucose. ICHTHYOFAUNA (26) MENINGIOMATA (17) [noun] A common tumour of the central nervous system, occurring in the meninges, usually benign. MESENCEPHALA (21) MESOTHELIOMA (19) [noun] An uncommon malignant tumour of the mesothelium, usually of the lungs after exposure to asbestos. METACERCARIA (18) METENCEPHALA (21) METRORRHAGIA (18) [noun] Abnormal uterine bleeding MICROFILARIA (19) [noun] The very small larva of a filarial worm. MITOCHONDRIA (20) [noun] A spherical or ovoid organelle found in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells and containing genetic material separate from that of the host; it is responsible for the conversion of food to usable energy in the form of ATP. | [noun] (sometimes proscribed) mitochondrion MYCOBACTERIA (23) [noun] Any of many rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria, of the genus Mycobacterium, that cause diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy. MYCOPLASMATA (23) [noun] Any infectious bacterium of the genus Mycoplasma, often specifically Mycoplasma pneumoniae NEURASTHENIA (15) [noun] An ill-defined medical condition characterized by lassitude, fatigue, headache, and irritability, associated chiefly with emotional disturbance. NEUROFIBROMA (19) [noun] A benign tumor composed of Schwann cells NORMOTHERMIA (19) ONOMATOPOEIA (16) [noun] The property of a word of sounding like what it represents. | [noun] A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle" or "hiss". | [noun] The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names. OSTEOMALACIA (16) [noun] A softening of adult bones due to inadequate mineralization; the adult equivalent of rickets OSTEOSARCOMA (16) [noun] A type of cancer of the bone PANCYTOPENIA (21) [noun] A reduction in the numbers of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets in the blood PARAESTHESIA (17) [noun] A sensation of burning, prickling, itching, or tingling of the skin, with no obvious cause. PERICHONDRIA (20) [noun] A dense layer of fibrous connective tissue surrounding the cartilage of developing bone PHARMACOPEIA (23) [noun] An official book describing medicines or other pharmacological substances, especially their use, preparation, and regulation. | [noun] A collection of drugs. PHOSPHATURIA (22) PIROPLASMATA (18) POLYCYTHEMIA (27) [noun] A rare disorder in which the bone marrow produces an abnormally large amount of blood cells, often red blood cells. PREECLAMPSIA (20) [noun] A complication of pregnancy, affecting about 2-20% of women, depending on location, characterized by hypertension and damage to the linings of the blood vessels of the brain, liver, lungs and kidneys, which can lead to multiple organ failure, convulsions, coma and death. The only cure is delivery of the child. PROSOPOPOEIA (18) [noun] Personifying a person or object when communicating to an audience. | [noun] Personification of an abstraction. QUADRIPLEGIA (25) [noun] Paralysis from the neck down | [noun] Paralysis of all four limbs SARSAPARILLA (14) [noun] Any of various tropical (Central and South) American vines of the genus Smilax, such as Smilax regelii, which have fragrant roots. | [noun] The dried roots of these plants, or a flavoring material extracted from these roots. | [noun] A beverage (soft drink) flavored with this root, such as root beer. SCLERENCHYMA (24) [noun] A mechanical ground tissue, impermeable to water, which consists of cells having narrow lumen and thick, mineralized walls of lignin; present in stems, vascular bundles (of monocots), seed coverings, and vein and tips of leaves. | [noun] The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of the stony corals (Anthozoa). STICHOMYTHIA (25) [noun] A technique in drama or poetry, in which alternating lines, or half-lines, are given to alternating characters, voices, or entities. SULFONYLUREA (18) SYNAESTHESIA (18) [noun] A neurological or psychological phenomenon whereby a particular sensory stimulus triggers a second kind of sensation. | [noun] (by extension) The association of one sensory perception with, or description of it in terms of, a different perception that is not experienced at the same time. | [noun] A literary or artistic device whereby one kind of sensation is described in the terms of another. TECHNOPHOBIA (24) [noun] A fear of new technologies. TELENCEPHALA (19) THALASSAEMIA (17) [noun] Any of a group of inherited disorders in which the amount of hemoglobin in the blood is reduced. TRADESCANTIA (15) [noun] Any of the genus Tradescantia of spiderworts. TRAPEZOHEDRA (27) [noun] Any of a class of polyhedra that have kite-shaped faces and are dual polyhedra of antiprisms. | [noun] A deltoidal icositetrahedron. VALPOLICELLA (19) ZOOSPORANGIA (24) ZOOXANTHELLA (31) [noun] Any of various typically yellow-brown dinoflagellates (originally grouped as genus Zooxanthella) now assigned to the genera Symbiodinium and Amphidinium, notably found in coral reefs.

AMINOACIDURIA (18) [noun] The presence of amino acids in the urine, typically indicating a metabolic disorder or kidney dysfunction. ANISOMETROPIA (17) [noun] A condition of the eye in which the two eyes have different refractive powers, resulting in unequal focus. ANTEPENULTIMA (17) ANTIGUERRILLA (14) [adjective] Relating to or designed for military operations against guerrilla forces or irregular warfare. ANTIMARIJUANA (22) ASTROCYTOMATA (20) [noun] Plural of astrocytoma, a type of brain tumor that arises from astrocytes (star-shaped glial cells in the nervous system). BOUGAINVILLEA (19) [noun] Any of several South American flowering shrubs or lianas, of the genus Bougainvillea, having three showy, colorful bracts attached below each group of three inconspicuous flowers. CHONDROCRANIA (21) [noun] The developing skull, composed of cartilage, of an embryo before ossification CYANOBACTERIA (22) [noun] Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae. DIEFFENBACHIA (27) [noun] Any of several plants, of the genus Dieffenbachia, cultivated as houseplants DISEQUILIBRIA (25) [noun] The loss of equilibrium or stability, especially due to an imbalance of forces. ENCYCLOPAEDIA (23) [noun] A comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field. | [noun] The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge. EPITHELIOMATA (20) HYPERCALCEMIA (27) HYPERESTHESIA (24) [noun] Unusual or pathological sensitivity of the skin or of a particular sense. HYPERGLYCEMIA (29) [noun] An unusually high concentration of sugar in the blood HYPERMETROPIA (25) [noun] Hyperopia HYPERURICEMIA (25) [noun] An abnormally high level of uric acid in one's blood. LYMPHOSARCOMA (27) MEGASPORANGIA (19) MYELENCEPHALA (25) NEUROBLASTOMA (17) [noun] A form of cancer that affects the ganglia in various parts of the body NONEQUILIBRIA (24) PANLEUKOPENIA (21) PARAINFLUENZA (27) [noun] Any of a group of single-stranded RNA viruses belonging to the family Paramyxoviridae, which are the second most common cause of lower respiratory tract infection in younger children. PARAPHERNALIA (20) PHARMACOPOEIA (24) [noun] An official book describing medicines or other pharmacological substances, especially their use, preparation, and regulation. | [noun] A collection of drugs. PLASMODESMATA (20) [noun] A microscopic channel traversing the cell walls of plant cells and some algal cells, enabling transport and communication between them. PROSENCEPHALA (22) PSYCHASTHENIA (26) RHINENCEPHALA (23) SCHIZOPHRENIA (32) [noun] A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness characterised by abnormal perception, thinking, behavior and emotion, often marked by delusions. | [noun] Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist; a lack of decision between options. SCLERODERMATA (18) SPERMATOGONIA (18) [noun] Any of the undifferentiated cells in the male gonads that become spermatocytes; a spermatoblast SYRINGOMYELIA (22) [noun] A disorder in which a cyst or cavity forms within the spinal cord, possibly leading to stiffness or paralysis. TRISOCTAHEDRA (19) XEROPHTHALMIA (30) [noun] A condition due to a deficiency of vitamin A where the conjunctiva and cornea become dry. The condition starts with conjunctival xerosis and night blindness and progresses to corneal xerosis and, later, a severe condition called keratomalacia.

ACHONDROPLASIA (22) [noun] A genetic disorder, the most common form of short limb dwarfism. ADENOCARCINOMA (21) [noun] Any of several forms of carcinoma that originate in glandular tissue ARCHAEBACTERIA (23) [noun] Any primitive bacteria-like organism in the kingdom Archaea. BOUGAINVILLAEA (20) [noun] Any of several South American flowering shrubs or lianas, of the genus Bougainvillea, having three showy, colorful bracts attached below each group of three inconspicuous flowers. CARCINOSARCOMA (22) [noun] A malignant tumor composed of both carcinomatous and sarcomatous tissue. CLAUSTROPHOBIA (23) [noun] The fear of closed, tight places. COMPUTERPHOBIA (27) CORYNEBACTERIA (23) [noun] Any bacterium, of the genus Corynebacterium, many of which are pathogenic or parasitic. CRYPTOSPORIDIA (24) [noun] A protozoan, of the genus Cryptosporidium, that is an intestinal parasite of humans and other vertebrates; can cause diarrhea and other symptoms in cases of low immunity ENDOTHELIOMATA (20) ENTEROBACTERIA (18) FIBROSARCOMATA (23) [noun] A fibroblastic sarcoma: a malignant tumor derived from fibrous connective tissue GLIOBLASTOMATA (19) [noun] A fast-growing, malignant tumor of the brain HEMOGLOBINURIA (22) [noun] The presence of hemoglobin in the urine. HYPERAESTHESIA (25) [noun] Unusual or pathological sensitivity of the skin or of a particular sense. HYPERLIPIDEMIA (27) [noun] An excess quantity of lipid in the blood; a symptom of several medical conditions. HYPOMAGNESEMIA (27) [noun] The condition of having an abnormally low concentration of magnesium ions in the blood INTELLIGENTSIA (15) [noun] The intellectual élite of a society (especially in nineteenth-century Poland, in Russia and later the Soviet Union). MESOTHELIOMATA (21) MICROSPORANGIA (21) [noun] A case, capsule or container that holds microspores. NEUROFIBROMATA (21) [noun] A benign tumor composed of Schwann cells OSTEOSARCOMATA (18) [noun] A type of cancer of the bone PHANTASMAGORIA (22) [noun] A popular 18th- and 19th-century form of theatre entertainment whereby ghostly apparitions are formed. | [noun] A series of events involving rapid changes in light intensity and colour. | [noun] A dreamlike state where real and imagined elements are blurred together. PHENYLTHIOUREA (25) PSEUDEPIGRAPHA (25) [noun] Writings falsely ascribed to famous persons (historical or mythical) to lend them greater legitimacy. They were typically composed many centuries after the ostensible author had died. RETINOBLASTOMA (18) [noun] A malignant tumour of the retina; a hereditary condition found mostly in children. RHOMBENCEPHALA (28) SUPERPHENOMENA (23) TELANGIECTASIA (17) [noun] A condition characterized by dilatation of the capillaries causing them to appear as small red or purple clusters, often spidery in appearance, on the skin or the surface of an organ.

CHORIOCARCINOMA (26) [noun] A malignant, trophoblastic cancer, usually of the placenta. COUNTERGUERILLA (18) [adjective] Relating to military operations designed to combat guerrilla warfare tactics. | [noun] A military operation or strategy used to counter guerrilla forces. LYMPHOGRANULOMA (28) LYMPHOSARCOMATA (29) MEDULLOBLASTOMA (22) [noun] A malignant type of brain tumour that originates in the cerebellum NEUROBLASTOMATA (19) OLIGODENDROGLIA (19) [noun] Tissue (neuroglia) consisting of glial cells that are smaller than astrocytes and form the myelin sheath PHENYLKETONURIA (27) [noun] A metabolic disorder in which individuals lack the liver enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) which is needed to metabolize the amino acid phenylalanine. PLEUROPNEUMONIA (21) [noun] Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, especially a kind of contagious and fatal lung disease of cattle and pigs, caused by infection by Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae. TACHYARRHYTHMIA (34) TERATOCARCINOMA (21) [noun] A malignant tumor, most often found in the testes.